Katharina Tian ASA002 A01 Week4

Katharina Tian
ASA002 A01 Week3

Caroline Valverde

Asian American Women Need to Take Rest

No matter how people like or dislike working in education, most all of them will want to get tenure. This is evidence that can prove they contribute their whole careers to education. However, Jane Junn and Mai’a K. Davis Cross who are the authors of “Investigating Discrimination: Injustice against Women of Color in the Academy.” Pointed out a sad fact.  They said that “The analysis documents a disparity between the tenure success rate of white males at 92 percent while the Asian American women are only 40 percent”. Those numbers mean that “60 percent of Asian American women who are hired in tenure-track positions at USC are denied or drop out before achieving tenure. Those data show how women especially Asian American women are suffering from injustice and discrimination. Those unfair treatments make other Asian American women who still keep fighting in the academy very scared and worried. They are afraid that one day they will become one of those losers. Thus, all Asian American women are working very hard during their whole careers. However, even they work so hard, they still need to the fact not only the low hiring and promotion rates but also the health issue.

https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2019/04/01/with-no-paid-parental-leave-many-teachers.html

In the article “Killing Machine: Exposing the Health Threats to Asian American Women Scholars in Academia”, the author Caroline Valverde, Cara Maffini Pham, Melody Yee, and Jing Mai talked about this health situation among Asian American women. Under such pressure in academia, Asian American women have to chance to take relax even they are sick or they get pregnant. This is very terrible. So, this is the reason those authors called academia a killing machine in their articles.
My question is why people don't want to hire women because they can't work during pregnancy even though they were born from those pregnant women?

Reference

Junn, J., & Davis Cross, M. K. (2020). Investigating Discrimination: Injustice against Women of Color in the Academy. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
Valverde, K.-L. C., Pham, C. M., Yee, M., & Mai, J. (2020). Killing Machine: Exposing the Health Threats to Asian American Women Scholars in Academia.
Will, M. (2019). Retrieved from https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2019/04/01/with-no-paid-parental-leave-many-teachers.html