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In short, I thought I had good reason for confidence
about my career..... Then 1993 hit, my 2 year contract ended, and the
bubble burst. Since then my "academic career" has consisted of
occasional sessional teaching. A variety of things converged
simultaneously, but one of them was the high fraction of posted jobs
which I couldn't even apply for because I am a male.
Its harder to
assess the impact of "the U of ... is an equal opportunity / affirmative
action employer" (a contradiction of terms), but I have been told off
the record many times that my only problem is being a white male.
I've
always been a supporter of the idea that our culture made it easier for
me as a white male to aspire to and succeed in science early on in life,
and this should be addressed in the hiring process. I should have to
prove myself a bit more because others had to overcome greater odds just
to compete against me. However, it seems that it is men of my
generation who received relatively little initial advantage from being
male who are shouldering most of the burden for achieving 'equity',
while men who grew up in a male dominated era have given up relatively
little of their career advancement to women.