ABSTRACT
By the time you are tenured and promoted to associate professor, you have in many ways already “made it,” defying statistical odds: finishing a PhD, scoring a tenure-track position, successfully surviving the tenure and promotion scrutiny, publishing and teaching-and perhaps even administering programsalong the way: and as a woman, too. At this point in your career, you should congratulate yourself and enjoy that new, overwhelming capacity to breathe. Enjoy, too, the more relaxed pace, the unapologetic attitude with which you may now greet your colleagues in the hallway. You may feel the urge, finally, to start an herb garden or to take up a hobby you have forgotten in the demanding, grueling race to tenure.
