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.

  • Wanderer@lemm.eeEnglish
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    10 months ago

    There can’t be many places in uni where women are outnumbered by men. It seems like that are taking a majority and trying to make out they are not the minority.

    They aren’t talking about university as a whole. They aren’t talking about courses where men are massively outnumber by women. It seems they are using the one group of people where women come off worse than men to fit a narrative.

    Either use the data from all the the university or not at all. Otherwise it’s data selection and biased.

    Also the self reported sexism is very tiring because it in itself is biased. You hear it all the time something like Woman A : I get so much sexism of man A. He always talks over me.

    Man b: yea man A is an arsehole. He talks over everyone, I don’t think he can help kt.

    Yet you use that data and it looks like sexism because it is self reported. It’s not, I’ve noticed many women struggle in loud environments, that’s not sexism if she is treated the same as everyone else and just struggles with it.

    • xor@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Dismissing sexism within a particular group because it is disproportionately prevalent in that group is, frankly, treating that sexism as acceptable.

      You can just as easily extend this approach until you either reach a group where it’s evened out, or is the entirety of humanity.

      “It’s more prevalent in stem? No, you have to look at university students overall”

      “It’s prevalent in university students overall? No, you have to look at all students”

      “It’s prevalent in students as a whole? No, you have to look at everyone involved in education”

      “It’s prevalent in education in general? No, you have to look at public services as a whole”

      “It’s prevalent in public services as a whole? No, you have to look at all non-private entities”

      “It’s prevalent across non-private entities? No, you have to look at all forms of work”