Received: from copland.udel.edu (copland.udel.edu [128.175.13.92]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.7.6/8.7.3/CNS-4.0p) with ESMTP id JAA25803 for ; Fri, 20 Jun 1997 09:46:58 -0600 (MDT) Received: from localhost (jmccorke@localhost) by copland.udel.edu (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA05083 for ; Fri, 20 Jun 1997 11:46:53 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 11:46:53 -0400 (EDT) From: Jill Ann McCorkel To: Sociology Graduate Students -- International Subject: Re: hiring In-Reply-To: <97Jun20.041618edt.786-6@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > The cases you cite are very interesting examples of gendered social interactions > that can indicate discriminatory outcomes for women, but they are not evidence > of any specialized tracking or channeling in the sociology discipline. They are > examples that could occur in ANY occupational setting. Hold on--are you suggesting that "gendered social interactions" are uniform from one institutional setting to the next? I think her point is in demonstrating how gender as a systematic pattern of social relations is organized in one particular institutional setting--academic sociology. I'm also troubled by your response to this scenario: > >given professor invited a male graduate student to his home to work on an > >NSF application. Apparently, they stayed up really late crafting the > >application carefully, etc. When one of his women advisees was applying > >for a grant, however, time to work on her application was relegated to > >office hours at the University. When confronted with this difference, he > > This guy was probably afraid of a sexual harassment rap. I can certainly see > how this would constitute differential or even discriminatory treatment > according to gender, but it's a function of pervasive social regulation > rather than anything specific to the discipline. And again, I don't see how > this constitutes a push into any particular specialty. > Of course, no one is accusing him of sleeping with the male graduate student nor does the male graduate student recieve any flack for trying to win favors by spending late hours at his professors home. Social regulation to be sure but in forms that are highly gendered... Jill McCorkel University of Delaware jmccorke@strauss.udel.edu