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- What role does Mansour's gender play in developing her past and future performance? What advantages or advantages related to her gender accrue to her during her career?
- Consider the role of service to the university and to the profession in evaluating Mansour's case. How much (and in what way) should her efforts to promote women in science be counted?
- How might considerations related to gender have affected arguments presented by her reviewers? Identify positive and negative considerations.
- What considerations related to gender affect perceptions of Mansour's performance? Identify positive and negative considerations.
- Consider the roles of the unit promotion and tenure committee and of the chair in advising Mansour about when to come up for promotion and tenure. What responsibilities (if any) do these parties have to guide Mansour's case toward a positive outcome?
- Assume that a tenure decision is essentially a "bet" on the academic potential of an individual based on past performance within a given context. What information would you like to see in Mansour's case that would help you make this decision?
- What assumptions related to gender influenced your reading of Mansour's case?