ABSTRACT
This expands on the previous chapter, providing a compilation of historical patterns in the documented experiences of those few early female anthropologists related to their gender, and situating modern women's experiences within this deeper context. These commonalities in experiences include: receiving social and financial discouragement at all stages of education, gaining entrance into professional work by studying women and children, serving in temporary and lower paid positions, working within the federal government or military, disappearing from professional spheres early in their careers, finding their work subsumed under that of their male colleagues, facing discrimination in pay and promotion, experiencing additional limitations to their career if they married or had families, often internalizing and outwardly downplaying their own experiences of sexism. This chapter also presents some details of Trotter’s personal life.
