I have a question for the group. Perhaps there is a better place to put it, but for now, here it is.

I am curious about what percentage of their time folks spend reviewing papers and performing other professional service duties. Just to offer some calibration, I am several years into being an associate professor and have a fairly high teaching load.

I face the pretty standard conflict between setting aside time for my own research and reviewing papers in a constructive manner. I have greatly benefitted from reviews of my own work that are probably best thought of as mentoring and feel a strong need to pay that benefit forward. This feeling is especially strong when it comes to feminist papers, for all the obvious reasons.

So, I am curious about how other people balance these aspects of their work and when other people “just say no.”

best,
Carla

Since this blog is supposed to be an open forum for us, I’ll go ahead and voice an opinion that I was, as a graduate student, too shy/sleepy to voice aloud at the meeting yesterday. I strongly agree with Sandy Mitchell’s point that the women’s caucus prize should not be limited to feminist epistemology and science and values things. As a woman working on philosophy of chemistry, an already-underrepresented field, I was quite disappointed to hear that the women’s caucus prize would be yet another discipline-specific prize that I would find myself excluded from. So I applaud the effort to raise funds for a second prize, and I will tentatively offer my services toward that effort, if they are needed–and if they don’t interfere with my prospectus.