What to Wear for Academic Interviews, or How to Dress Like a Man Without Looking Like a Man

I first became aware of the problem when I took a female faculty interview candidate out to lunch a few years ago. “Deciding what to wear to interviews is a real challenge,” she had told me. “My advisor knows what the male faculty candidates should wear, but for me he had no clue.” Indeed, professional dress is a difficult problem for women, especially those in male-dominated fields. As psychologist Virginia Valian writes in <a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/why-so-slow" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Why So Slow?</a>, men have a professional “uniform,” but women are always “marked.” While men’s clothing is intended to help men blend in, women’s clothing is intended to help women stand out. <a href="https://medium.com/@jeanqasaur/what-to-wear-for-academic-interviews-or-how-to-dress-like-a-man-without-looking-like-a-man-6b2e5f881043">Read More</a>