A lot has been said about the fact that Canadian Nobel prize winner Donna Strickland was only an associate professor - not a full professor - at Waterloo. It's just a lot of paperwork for a limited benefit. As someone comments, "The raise is v v small & I could write a whole article in the time it would take to put together the promotion materials." I sympathize - I haven't put in for a promotion at NRC for, I don't know, a decade? and so never advanced to 'Principal Researcher'. It's backward, in m view; promotions should be given, not sought for. I think it's more telling, actually, that her Wikipedia page was deleted despite her obvious qualifications, even well before the Nobel prize. It's a sad commentary not only on how society regards women, but also on how it regards scientists.
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