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Women STEM students up to twice as likely as non-STEM students to have experienced sexism (www.hepi.ac.uk)

submitted 10 months ago by stopthatgirl7@kbin.social to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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 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.

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[-] LWD@lemm.ee 0 points 10 months ago

I asked Why do women choose caring professions over STEM professions?

You mostly link to articles saying that women choose not to enter STEM, but they don't say why.

without engaging in the realities that there is a fundamental difference between the sexes.

What are these fundamental differences between the sexes?

Females have the inherent ability to empathize and assist others and males inherently do not, on an average basis, not on an individual basis.

Off-topic, but why didn't you provide evidence to that claim? You provided a link, but it wasn't relevant.

what few women actually want to get into STEM are the ones who suffer the discrimination therein, and that impacts THAT SPECIFIC group of women, not ALL women.

Oh my God, he admit it!

I agree! Women do face sexism in STEM fields!

So how do we end that disproportionate sexism, which would logically be a huge reason women are choosing not to enter those fields?

[-] trackcharlie@lemmynsfw.com 0 points 10 months ago

The least you could do is read the research links provided in both the articles and the references provided before pretending like I didn't provide direct referential material to every point I made.

[-] LWD@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

Got really quiet after I pointed out your own lack of reading comprehension to you... So where is your solution to the discrimination you believe is occurring, or are you somehow okay with it?

[-] LWD@lemm.ee 0 points 10 months ago

We have already agreed on your conclusion that women face disproportionate bigotry, as sexism, in STEM fields. Now I want to know what your solution is.

I have already engaged with your articles more than you have, as I already explicitly pointed out the irrelevance of one of them. You would have known this if you had read my entire comment instead of skipping to the bold section. What do you call people who don't read the entire comment again? Incompetent or dishonest assholes, I believe...

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