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.

  • silverhand@reddthat.comEnglish
    329·
    10 months ago

    Uh… aren’t gay people the only segment likely to face homophobia? Like, you can’t be homophobic to a straight person…

    • sir_reginald@lemmy.worldEnglish
      81·
      10 months ago

      I’ve seen people being homophobic to straight but feminine men.

      Anyway, OP meant that homophobia, just like sexism, seems to be more present in STEM.

    • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      Meh not sure if it counts but an ex-client of mine decided to work out his fox news rage on me about my trans sister-in-law. Don’t worry, his manager was informed, the Google maps review of his employer now mentions it, and he really wasn’t expecting me when I knocked on his door late one night smirking and telling him what I did.

      Christians going to Christian.

    • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      21·
      10 months ago

      I was called gay long before I ever had a gay thought in my head (on account of being prepubescent).

      When I was being brutalized by bullies, gay was a generic derisive, associating things with homosexuality, the way cuck (now a generic derisive) associates with cuckold fetishists.