A tip you may want to pass on to any woman you know starting in academia... Negotiate a higher academic salary the minute the contract comes to you. They are expecting staff to negotiate up which is why they offer the lowest rung, but women are typically so full of gratitude and fear, that they accept it without question. Some of us have learned this the hard way. Let's help the up-and-comers not fall into the same trap. I want their confidence and self-belief to permeate the system, so that the old unjust ways of doing things are suffocated quickly.