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Cornell Study: For STEM Tenure Track, Women Twice As Likely To Be Hired As Men
_Sharp'r_ writes In the first "empirical study of sexism in faculty hiring using actual faculty members", Cornell University researchers found that when using identical qualifications, but changing the sex of the applicant, "women candidates are favored 2 to 1 over men for tenure-track positions in the science, technology, engineering and math fields."
An anonymous reader links to the study itself.
To exemplify where Sweden is going in this direction, with two comments made by the Swedish minister for higher education and academia:
"7 out of 10 natural science, maths and engineering students being male is a gender gap that must be corrected as soon as possible"
"18 out of 20 students in service and profession oriented higher education(includes law studies, medical(covers nurses, doctors, surgeons etc)) being women is a great step towards equality"
This also the reasons the "we need more women in field X because they only make up Y% of workers. As far as we've come, we still have a long way to go..." trope is misleading or dangerous. That populace of worker for which they are measuring demographics is...everybody. All the people who have entered (or not entered) that field for the past 40 years.
Today, 90% of electrical engineers are male. If tomorrow a magic wand were waved and enrollment of electrical engineers in college switched to 50/50 male and female, you still wouldn't have parity (if that's the measuring stick) for 40+ years, until last year's 90% male graduates retire.
You could bar men from entering the profession. Make electrical engineering schools 100% female. And next year you'd still have an industry that's 89% male. So people would still be saying "we're not doing enough for gender equality in this field!"
Clearly there's only one reasonable solution: kill all men.
We don't have a state-run media we have a media-run state.
Two equal candidates, but one who overcame greater adversity to reach that point, suggesting they have greater inherent potential.
Say two people finish a race in a tie, but one was carrying a heavily loaded backpack - wouldn't it be reasonable to assume that they were actually the better runner?
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Murse here.
There is the start of whispering campaign against male nurses for risk of sexual impropriety. There are certain positions men are forbidden from bidding on under the auspices of "patient sensitivity" which don't seem to apply to people preferring a male nurse (Muslims, Hispanics). Those people need get a grip and join the 21st century. It's unspoken that no men are allowed on oby/gyn or peds unless you are a women or flammingly gay. Any "sensitive" procedures should have a female present just in case. Everything else you mention sounds about right.
Oh, and you will have to walk a fine line of not saying anything that could be misconstrued as harassment and appearing to be gay for thinking it is improper to date anyone at work. Of course being a fly on the wall to your female colleagues conversations is enough to put you off from dating forever.
On the plus side, there is a camaraderie with working with women that is absent from working with men (frequent potlucks, that sort of thing) and for the most part the glass escalator doesn't exist except in certain, traditionally female areas.
That's the point: It was never the same track. Never the same obstacles.
You've been playing the game on its easiest setting all this time and you think you're elite. That's the meaning of the word, "privilege".
You are welcome on my lawn.
Nonsense - "Tabla Rasa" has been thoroughly disproved by numerous studies. Someone born with a 160 IQ has far more intellectual potential than someone born with an IQ of 30. Just as someone born with a predisposition to large, efficient muscles has far more potential for feats of strength. An egalitarian society must recognize that fact, and strive to provide them equal opportunities for happiness and well-being, not equal opportunities to become world-shaking theoretical physicists - the only way to do that would be to mandate that all people be crippled to reduce their potential to that of the least able.
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