Isabel Fajardo
Week 1O
AO3
I think that this selection was the
perfect wrap up of all the concepts that we have learned in class. In “’The Time
to Fight is Now’: When Asian American Women in Academia Go Rogue,” it listed
different instances in which many other women – especially women of color – had
similar experiences of bullying and harassment from their colleagues to stop
their pursuit of academia. It’s so eye-opening to read the experiences from
people about mistreatment and realize that the act of running women out of
color in academia isn’t banned at all, and many people aren’t paying attention
all. Most students don’t even know that there’s a problem brewing in their
university and are ignorant, whether it be intentional or not. It’s horrifying
to think that people are losing their lives over this pyrrhic-like battle of
getting tenure at universities. One of the main points that caught my attention
this week was the idea of fighting back, as loudly and publically as possible.
I think doing so when fighting back breaks two stereotypes at once: that
Asian-American females are often meek and demure and trying to bar
Asian-American women from academic jobs. I understand that it may be hard for
these women to fight back; they might feel like they’re alone, that they’re
putting themselves more at risk, but that’s why the Fight the Tower Movement is
so powerful. They’re there to provide support and let women know that they’re
not alone.
Question: What can we do to help push for women
in academia, specifically in upper education?
References:
Tenured Professors, Faculty of Arts and
Sciences [Chart]. (2005, Jan. & feb.). In Harvard Magazine.
Retrieved November 26, 2017, from
https://harvardmagazine.com/2005/01/tenure-and-gender.html
Valverde, C., & Dariotis, W. (2017).
"The Time to Fight is Now": When Asian American Women in Academia Go
Rogue. Retrieved November 24, 2017.
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