I. Most of you come to know most of academic women of my generation deep into our careers, often with chaired professorships.  I am May Brodbeck Professor in the Liberal Arts at the University of Iowa;   Dorothy was the Arthur O Lovejoy Professor at Hopkins,  Barbara  Sicherman, who is with us today, is Kenan  Professor at Trinity. But most of us were unemployed at the beginning.  I recently learned that when Dorothy was being considered for a position at Princeton, the search committee spent time wondering how  her husband, Stan, would feel if she embarked on a commuting marriage. [They Read more