Women in the Academy
President Mariko Silver’s essay is featured in The Chronicle of Higher Education’s “What It’s Like to be a Woman in the Academy” round-up.
A recent conference at Stanford University featured 30 speakers — all of them men, all of them white. The incident sparked ridicule and outrage, as well as a sense that higher education is facing a reckoning.
Over the past few months, amid mounting revelations of sexual harassment, The Chronicle Review asked presidents—including Ź College's Mariko Silver—and adjuncts, scientists and humanists, senior scholars and junior professors to take on the theme of women and power in academe.
Silver's essay, "It's OK to Lead Like a Woman," .
So much advice about power — how to get it, wield it, keep it — is premised on a specific, and unfortunately still widely accepted, gendered way of projecting authority.
President Mariko Silver