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Kate Weisshaar

@kateweisshaar.bsky.social
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Associate Prof. in Sociology, Northwestern University. Gender, work, family, organizations, inequality. She/her. Views are my own.

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Kate Weisshaar @kateweisshaar.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
My terrific grad student @imartinezechague.bsky.social just published a fascinating paper in @sfjournal.bsky.social on how equality itself requires work in households - work which often falls to women. It’s worth a read!
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Kate Weisshaar @kateweisshaar.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
This is shameful. The UNC Board of Trustees fails to vote on all tenure cases in Arts & Sciences, holding faculty in limbo without any explanation or timeline. This affects both assistant profs up for tenure and new tenured hires. www.chronicle.com/article/at-c...
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At Chapel Hill, Only Health-Sciences Professors Have Been Getting Tenure
The UNC Chapel Hill board hasn’t tenured a single professor in fields outside the health sciences since January. The inaction has prompted confusion and alarm among faculty.
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