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The American Elephant: Women’s Continued Segregation and Underpayment

Anna Faktorovich

June 10, 2017

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The bulk of my salaries was swallowed up in the cost of the moves and higher living expenses in the regions around the schools. So, for over eight years now, my real source of income has been publishing. The blame might be with the untenured and otherwise unsecure state of academic employment. But being a woman in academia is especially disabling.

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