Through careful observation I have learned a lot about the women I work with. Some of them, particularly the new Head of Social and Behavioral Sciences, is unflappably happy -- singing and humming her way through her office playlist most of the time she is not teaching. Other women at school are more "dogged" and due to sheer overwork and lack of contact with humanity, revert to somber and unreadable body language.
Other "younger" women ride the roller coaster of manic-depression like professionals -- always seeking the end of the day, and the beginning of the party.
Our school/bureaucracy/corporation offers no kindnesses to anyone, especially to women. We have a female on top of the administrative totem poll, but that offers no succor or support to anyone else. Women have a hard life at Savannah Tech.
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