In the reading "Mothering is Liberation: Giving Birth to Alagaan Pedagogy (Pedagogy of Care)" by Allyson Tintiango-Cubales, we can know how hard women in academia are. They not only have to face discrimination they also need to balance their family and their career. The author always found confused about how to give her children enough care and finish her work at the same time.
My cousin once complained to me about an experience she had had. She was finding a job at that time. She told me that almost every company she had an interview with asking her to answer a question. The question is that did she has a child yet and if not, when will she plan to have a child. She said, if she answers she will have a child after one or two years, she will have zero chance to get the position. Because having babies will interfere with her job performance, and the company needs to coordinate personnel transfer, the company will not give offers to women who plan to have babies soon. Although it is not allowed to discriminate against women, we can really feel the unequal treatment in our life. I never heard a man been asked for this question. We need to figure out how to solve this.
Question: How can women eliminate this discrimination when finding a job?
Reference:
Valverde, K. -L. C., & Dariotis, W.M. (2020). Fight the tower: Asian American women scholars resistance and renewal in the academy. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
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