Yidan Xu ASA 002 A04 Week 7

In this week's reading, it mentioned that Asian American women often do uncompensated, unrewarded care work, especially to students who are low- income or first generation in college, immigrants, or facing additional significant challenges and barriers to academic success which I think it is really unfair. I think it is acceptable that people generally think Asian American women are good at jobs like taking care of people, but any contributed effort should be either paid or at least rewarded. There should not be free labor, especially on one ethic. And when people tried to help them, most of them are refused or afraid to speak up and some of them think it is meaningless because this problem has been like this forever as what they think and what people tried to help really will not helpful at all.
There is another article talked about creating a system of academic symbiosis supports dialogue between faculty about pedagogy. And they did a few approaches: "conducting thoughtful and frequent peer evaluations of all faculty; conducting thoughtful and frequent peer evaluations of all faculty; Conducting thoughtful and frequent peer evaluations of all faculty." The combination of these three ways should do a great and full-sided job to help both faculty and students.



https://www.marketwatch.com/story/this-is-how-much-more-unpaid-work-women-do-than-men-2017-03-07

Reference: Valverde, K.-L. C, & Dariotis W. M. (2020). Fight the Tower: Asian American Women Scholars' Resistance and Renewal in the Academy.Rutgers University Press

Neutill, R. “How to Leave Academia.” Fight the Tower. Rutgers University Press.