Dealing with Drek in the Workplace.
posted by parclair Jun 30, 2010 @ 10:20 PM • 1 comment
in communications how to deal with sexism how to do business how to understand a male-dominated workplace mentoring for women in academia and the workplace project management security team building
I signed up a while back, but have been to busy to explore stemming, so have avoided posting. Today I start.
I was just following the thread (6/29/2010) on Pharyngula about the lack of women attending skeptic conferences. I discovered, much to my chagrin and deep sadness, that women are still dealing with the same sexist drek that I had to deal with 45 years ago. So, I thought I’d focus here on providing support and practical advice on how to deal with the noise.
I’m very interested in passing on my hard-won knowledge about dealing with sexism in the workplace. Even though I’ve spent most of my career in government, I’ve a good idea of sexism in the private workplace. My computer skills are 10 years out of date (ie I’m fairly clueless about the latest). My business skills are still spot on, and I’ve had a lot of training in the area: project management, team building, communications, security, and other topics I’ll add as they occur to me.
So, fire away with questions. I’ll publish every now and then as the topic occurs to me. Is there anything you’d like discussed?
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at 12:27AM 06/13/11 soar said:
I am dealing with sexism. I have started a collaboration and am a chair of biology and chemistry. In order to write $30 million in grants our two institutions wanted to show that for a year we had a prior relationship. We were going to have seminars and in the summer research would began at the hosting institution. My VPAA would pay our salary and the other school would provide facilities, reagents, and mentoring and whatever was needed for the faculty member to conduct the research. Now that all the men let me arrange all the seminars to pair the faculty, which was the hosting institutions responsibility (my advisor said I did such a good job that I should keep doing it) from both institutions for the summer for research the VPAA, who agreed to raise funds to pay the salaries (last July) has not raised funds. In fact, he only picked four people out of the eighteen faculty from our college and he is paying each person the same amount of money irregardless of the rank or time spent on the project because he used title III money (as I was told from a friend in sponsored programs) because he was written up for not using it in the past. Now, none of the people from either institutions will respond to my emails they speak to him only and he wants me to do the same amount of work on the project and start earlier next year. The VPAA only returns calls from other faculty on the project or the directors from the other institution. He still has not said how he is going to pay for our salaries and why the MOU was never completed, since he had me draft it and give it to our lawyer. He never admitted that he did not do any fundraising and never attended more than two seminars and did not read his emails until I went into his office to open them on his computer. He did not know about the selection process and the CV’s that were read and he complained about my having a year to get the faculty mentoring piece together and why did it take me so long. He has ruined my credibility and the student that was set up to do research had the funding pulled, my colleague was told that there was no money for his chemicals and he has been cleaning the lab at an ivy league school that I graduated from waiting for supplies. My VPAA wants to know why I was mad about the lack of funding for this project and the selection of four people. I told him I do not appreciate him making me the fall guy for this project. What should I do he is on my PCFF project that develops minority women and I wrote the grant by myself and I was the team leader and now he has decided he is the team leader. At first he did not want to attend. He started a collaboration with another school but he is not a grant writer and I would not join because I did this work alone and was overloaded.