You have to get tenure, notes G mez . But there are no shortcuts. You have to work your way up, go through the ranks. We don't like to leave the comfort of home. However, you have to make your own way.
Positions are harder to come by.
It's a question of economics. The action is elsewhere. It's always scary, but it is worthwhile. I would argue that it is important, for women in particular, to attach themselves to people who for generations have had a real understanding of how the system works to actually serve as mentors. It is actually they who have an understanding of the untangiable forms of knowledge that are actually so important in order to mobilize populations, information, connections, networks.