"In which the wives of the tenured bullied the younger women, who trembled lest they jeopardize their husbands’ future." I saw this same behavior in the army. At the officers club, the wives of the lieutenants and captains were extremely deferential to the wives of the colonels for exactly the same reason.
Thanks for this. My mom was a political science PBK at Wellesley during WWII, then came out to Chicago for graduate school. By the time she finished the master’s, she was married and not long after that I arrived. She never seriously considered resuming her career.
"In which the wives of the tenured bullied the younger women, who trembled lest they jeopardize their husbands’ future." I saw this same behavior in the army. At the officers club, the wives of the lieutenants and captains were extremely deferential to the wives of the colonels for exactly the same reason.
We lost at least 20 years of her intelligence. You made me google her. Only the good die young.
Thanks for this. My mom was a political science PBK at Wellesley during WWII, then came out to Chicago for graduate school. By the time she finished the master’s, she was married and not long after that I arrived. She never seriously considered resuming her career.