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#womenslives: She writes about a disturbing, familiar pattern
By feimineach / in #patriarchiesrealign, #academia, #womenslives, #quickhits, #sexism / August 9, 2017#womenslives: She writes about a disturbing, familiar pattern: Since I started writing about women and science, my female colleagues have been moved to share their stories with me; my inbox is an ina...
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#academia: misogyny is to blame for the gender gap in stem – @rolereboot
By feimineach / in #womensrights, #academia, #education, #equality, #quickhits, #sexism / April 27, 2017As a female scientist, I have had my fair share of misogynistic experiences. Some of them were covert attempts to remind me of my pre-determined role, while others were more flagrant. My male post-d...
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#patriarchiesrealign: Women who perform femininity are judged to be less suited to science #academia #research – @socimages
By feimineach / in #quickhits / April 17, 2017Sexism in American society has been on the decline. Obstacles to female-bodied people excelling in previously male-only occupations and hobbies have lessened. And women have thrived in these spaces,...
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#research: Explaining the perpetual gender gap in academic science – @ESTBLSHMNT
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / February 1, 2017The lack of a one-to-one relationship between effort and reward in this job turns off women from entering the profession.On January 21, 2017, the first full day of the Trump administration, women marc...
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#womenslives: Study: sexual harassment “part of job” for women in tech – @DianaTourjee/ @broadly
By feimineach / in #womenslives, #quickhits / July 1, 2016Piece by @DianaTourjee on @broadly (emphasis added):A recent report finds that 60 percent of women working in the tech industry in Silicon Valley have experienced sexual harassment. A staggering 90 pe...
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#patriarchiesrealign: Only 16% of Australians in Stem professions are women, and pay gap is ‘unacceptable’
By feimineach / in #patriarchiesrealign, #quickhits / April 7, 2016Same old, same old. Guardian (emphasis added): Women make up less than one-fifth of Australians qualified in science, technology, engineering and maths and continue to be paid less than their male col...
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#patriarchiesrealign: gender imbalance in science
By feimineach / in #patriarchiesrealign, #quickhits / March 17, 2016From the Chronicle of Higher Education, an associate prof. of informatics explores another gender imbalance in science. We know that women less likely to promoted and to progress in the sciences, and ...
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#todayin: academia: Persistent sexual harassment is a primary reason women leave STEM
By feimineach / in #academia, #quickhits / March 12, 2016Persistent Sexual Harassment Is a Primary Reason Women Leave STEM (jezebel) “The absence of women within STEM programs is not only progressive, it is persistent,” Hope Jahren writes in a recent essay...
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#todayin: academia: male science students rate female students lower
By feimineach / in #academia, #quickhits / February 22, 2016More on gender bias in academia and, in this case, STEM subjects again. (See also this very useful list of resources.) One of the challenges for anyone involved in this sort of equality work is to ide...
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#todayin: academia: Excellent list of resources (part. if you’re working on Athena Swan or similar)
By feimineach / in #academia, #quickhits / February 19, 2016Excellent list of resources (part. if you’re working on Athena Swan or similar). From HASTAC. In 1961, Phyllis Richman applied to graduate school at Harvard and received this letter of rejection.Overv...
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#research: #todayin: who would have thunk it! Gender bias in evaluations of evidence of gender bias
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / October 20, 2015I think I’ve leave this one to speak for itself too. Write-up (and good unpicking) from feministphilosophers: A new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reports t...
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#research: national hiring experiments reveal 2:1 faculty preference for women on STEM tenure track
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / July 7, 2015The underrepresentation of women in academic science is typically attributed, both in scientific literature and in the media, to sexist hiring. Here we report five hiring experiments in which faculty ...
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#todayin sexism: #research: John vs. Jennifer: A Battle of the Sexes
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / July 5, 2015Student applications rated for competence, hireability, and mentoring. More research evidence on the bias towards male applicants in science. Respondents were asked to rate students with identical ...
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#maleficentmisogyny: stories of sexism in science: ‘sorry about all the women in this laboratory’
By feimineach / in #maleficentmisogyny, #quickhits / June 13, 2015Yes, #forsrs. ‘There should be a rule against women having children in science’“Following the recent comments made by Tim Hunt, I spent a little time reminiscing about my experiences as a postdoctora...
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