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>I should begin by acknowledging that I've had some major and sometimes quite public conflicts with my home department and administration, especially about their treatment of my spouse, which I strongly believe to be the result of highly sexist attitudes.

What does that concretely mean?

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If you go back through his archives (which took more time than I thought it would) you find a FAQ post about an essay concerning alleged sexual discrimination in his wife's tenure hearing [1] (it's referenced here [2]). Both claim to have links to the original article, but they're dead.

EDIT: Concretely? It seems like his wife was up for tenure and was denied it on account of what the author claims was sexism, based on past actions of the administrators in his department.

[1] http://zacharyernst.blogspot.com/2012/03/sex-discrimination-...

[2]http://philosophysmoker.blogspot.com/2011/12/zachary-ernsts-...

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