“I took an off-the-record grievance pay-out (not massive) and a much-reduced pension to get out of academia two years ago after an unremitting fifteen years of sexist (and disablist) bullying. … I had to sign a gagging clause when I got my grievance pay-out which—as I’m sure you are aware—is how universities typically try to cover up the sexism that is rampant within them.” p10
“Furious with administrators for protecting their institutional reputations instead of their students’ rights, survivors bypassed obstructionist deans, invented new strategies of collaboration, taught themselves Title IX, and with unprecedented clout brought over two hundred universities under federal investigation.” p23
“It took us forever to try and find the complaints procedure PDF on the database. We knew it existed but it was like a mythical golden egg, we just couldn’t find it. And when we did, it was so big that even two PhD students spent weeks trying to get through the small print, to find out what the complaint process was.” p31
“I am the one who has to arrange all this information and send it to different people because they are just not talking to each other. I had to file the forms in order to get the Human Resources records; I had to do all the Freedom of Information requests. It was on me to do all of this work, which raises the question of why have Human Resources officers at all because I am literally doing their job.” p35-36
“[an academic who made use of multiple policies in putting together a complaint about plagiarism] … the minute you try to enact policy that you are told when you are hired to be the vanguards of, to protect the quality of education and work at the university … you become the person to be investigated.” p43
[And that’s just the Introduction and first chapter.]
