This article examines the role of gender in the treatment of part-time faculty. The author draws the analogy of women first entering the workforce in this country. They had to accept any work available in order to work at all. She argues that women in academia are trapped in a similar situation today. Administrations tend to blame the market but the devaluing of women makes it more possible to offer low pay and disrespect.
Administrators blame the victims for lowering academic standards.
Most of these people are men. She goes on to describe efforts to unionize part-time faculty at Rutgers University.