i haven’t blogged about it, but the academic job search has been on my mind pretty much constantly since… well, september. it is hard to know what to say that would be of any value to myself or other people who might be reading this blog, because so much about this process is opaque to me that i am not yet sure what i have actually learned.
so, in lieu of my own ‘words of wisdom’, here are two links from the NY Times that have me thinking about the job search again today:
Humanities Ph.D.’s Are Anticipating Hard Times – NYTimes.com
“This is a year of no jobs,” said Catherine Stimpson, the dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at New York University. Ph.D.s are stacked up, she said, “like planes hovering over La Guardia.”
Why Is Her Paycheck Smaller? – Interactive Graphic – NYTimes.com
Nearly every occupation has the gap — the seemingly unbridgeable chasm between the size of the paycheck brought home by a woman and the larger one earned by a man doing the same job. Economists cite a few reasons: discrimination as well as personal choices within occupations are two major factors, and part of the gap can be attributed to men having more years of experience and logging more hours.
