Yes, all women
In my first few years in a tenure-track job, not a semester went by when I didn’t have to field some version of the observation, “you don’t look old enough to be a professor.” It came from jovial older men seated next to me on airplanes as I flew to conferences. It came from angry students who thought I graded them too critically. Whether voiced as a presumed compliment or as a vitriolic way to undermine my authority in the middle…
