“I guess the biggest difference between me and many of today's female graduate students is that a lot of them were raised by mothers with careers, and they got college degrees studying with female professors. Both of those factors make the enterprise of educating yourself for a serious profession seem feasible.” MotherStudyStudentsCollegeSeriousFemaleProfessionEnterpriseGraduatesCollege Degree Author:Debra Monroe
“There's still sexism in the world, so there's still sexism in publishing and in graduate school. But it is different. Now, it's more coded and harder to detect. It was more explicit when I was in school. There were no rules against male professors asking out female students. The reverse didn't happen since female professors were rare or nonexistent. Visiting writers came, 90% of them male, and some expected that a female student would materialize as his date for the visit.” WorldDifferentSchoolStudentsFemaleSexismGraduatesPublishingExplicitGraduate School Author:Debra Monroe