Women STEM students up to twice as likely as non-STEM students to have experienced sexism - HEPI
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We know that women students and staff remain underrepresented in Higher Education STEM disciplines. Even in subjects where equivalent numbers of men and women participate, however, many women are still disadvantaged by everyday sexism. Our recent research found that women who study STEM subjects at undergraduate level in England were up to twice as likely […]

We know that women students and staff remain underrepresented in Higher Education STEM disciplines. Even in subjects where equivalent numbers of men and women participate, however, many women are still disadvantaged by everyday sexism. Our recent research found that women who study STEM subjects at undergraduate level in England were up to twice as likely as non-STEM students to have experienced sexism. The main perpetrators of this sexism were not university staff, however, but were men STEM degree students.

  • WeeSheep@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    9 months ago

    I always hope people learn from their experience. I have no idea if they learned anything after interacting with me or assumed I’m some crazy female.

      • CulturedLout@lemmy.caEnglish
        3·
        9 months ago

        From your perspective, what was cruel? I’m interested in how different people interpret the same scenarios. What would be a more constructive way to address the situation?

          • prole@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            6·
            9 months ago

            Telling somebody that they are not good enough to talk to because of not knowing how to do that is cruel because it gives them no escape

            Not really… First, I don’t think they ever said that those people “weren’t good enough” to talk to. Those are your words.

            But also, there is a very obvious “escape” when you’re ignorant or uneducated about something. It’s called learning.