Bravo Strickland!
Shame on University of Waterloo!
In the 21 years Strickland has worked there, the university has not seen fit to promote this Nobel-calibre physicist to full professor. Hmm. Could it be because she's female?
Friday, October 5, 2018
Donna Strickland: Amazing Physicist, Amazing Canadian, Amazing Woman
Bravo Strickland!
Shame on University of Waterloo!
In the 21 years Strickland has worked there, the university has not seen fit to promote this Nobel-calibre physicist to full professor. Hmm. Could it be because she's female?
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She's not a full professor because she hadn't applied.
She was on the CBC's As It Happens and, per their tweet https://twitter.com/HarbordCBC/status/1047178960843563008 :
Nobel Prize winner Donna Strickland just told us that she never applied to be a full professor because she didn't find it 'fun' to fill out the forms involved -- 'I'm hoping they'll just give it to me now,' she joked.
And a later As It Happens tweet at https://twitter.com/cbcasithappens/status/1048243734645760002 :
New info from @UWaterloo on Nobel winner Donna Strickland: "As an associate prof, Dr. Strickland is full-time faculty. She has tenure. There is no increase in pay. The promotion is in title only. She hadn’t applied, though was encouraged to previously.'
I stand corrected. I do feel it still says something about women in academia - why don't they reach for the top status? Strickland will be a role model in the future, and it would be nice to see her recognized as top class. I understand someone at the university said her resume for reaching full professorship would need to contain only one line!
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