Miles Jackson wrote:
> I've taught in public universities and colleges for many moons now, and
> I've never come across any professors who had this perception of sexual
> access as a "job perk". Is this an Ivy League thing? (And in case
> I get divorced one day, where do I send my vita, exactly, to get in
> on this?)
I don't think it's an Ivy league thing. So far as the universities I know about directly and through close friends: UCLA, UCBerkeley, Stanford, Harvard, SUNY Plattsburgh, it's as common as dirt. I can't speak for the last ten years but the seventies, eighties, some of the nineties...yeah.... People are fairly discreet. There's no reason to trumpet things about. But it's there all right.
As a student, I made a point not to do it because I never wanted it to be said that that is how I "made it." But I knew a fair number of grad women who took exactly that route and were stupendously successful. As a prof it's hard to know what I would have done in the long run. I hated academia and decided fairly early on to leave. So, I don't know.
Joanna