“the minutiae of sexism,” the slights against women that were so casual that in isolation they weren’t “actionable.” “Most are such petty incidents that they may not even be identified, much less protested,” she wrote in a presentation for the American Association of University Women in 1974. These were the invitations to seminars and meetings that were not extended, the pages that were not typed, the professor who refused to learn his female students’ names or vowed that if a woman was given tenure, he’d make her life so miserable she’d quit: “It is her work which by mistake is not properly
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The minutiae of sexism
