A study on what many of us already know: over 75% of internal service work in academia is done by women. The bit that gets me:”The male associate professors in particular made it clear that they actively engaged in evasiveness and did not want to participate if it was not positive for their careers”
For me it was this, which we all knew happened, but still! “Several said that they actively didn’t respond to emails, or acted in an exaggerated disorganised manner. This meant they were assigned fewer tasks, but were also less frequently asked, and thus got away without doing service.”
If they’re not used to do housework they’ll find themselves too important to do internal service work.
I don’t understand how someone can earn a PhD and be incapable of dealing with emails.
Redraw their contracts / job descriptions..
One of the worst things I've seen was the staff with the highest service contributions being put into humiliating 'performance management' because they weren't seen as achieving enough..
Well there's a massive fucking surprise.
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And this is (one reason why) my house is an absolute disaster and I rarely publish.
The part that I most relate to is the ppl who won't answer emails. They always frame this in terms of lefty ideals like protecting their time from neoliberal admins etc - in reality, what they're doing is dumping work on their own colleagues.
