Roundtable: Professional Issues around Women, Work and Care
Sponsored by Women in French
NeMLA 2022
Baltimore, MD March 10-13
Chair: Anne Brancky
The pandemic has been especially catastrophic for working women and for those in precarious employment positions, including contingent faculty, the underemployed, low-wage workers and freelancers. This roundtable invites participants to explore professional issues that have been exacerbated or illuminated by the pandemic related to working conditions, dependent care, racial equity, pay, pedagogy, accessibility and accountability. How have we been called on to care for others? Where have we been stretched too thin? How can we establish mutual support? What can we learn from each other’s successes in making change at individual institutions? What might the future of the profession look like? What can we do to influence and shape this future?
Topics may include: racial equity, caretaking, job precarity, online teaching, resources, parental and sick leave, sabbaticals, research, tenure, the review process, retirement, graduate school, stipends, funding, etc.
Please upload your proposed abstract (~250 words) to the NeMLA portal by September 30, 2021.
Contact Anne Brancky (anbrancky@vassar.edu) with any questions you might have.
