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[-] TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works 86 points 2 days ago

Fucking relatable.

No thank you to the hundreds of years of chemist men taking credit for women's discoveries.

No thank you to the old white Persian man gate keeping chemistry from Ukranians and older women in my class.

No thank you to the sexist math book author who used shoeless women in a kitchen as a word problem example.

No thank you to Amazon for banning my 15 year account for calling the sexist math book author out in reviews.

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[-] cleanandsunny@literature.cafe 144 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Name dropping TU Delft is surprising to me! ETA: found more info here, but not about the lawsuit piece.

https://delta.tudelft.nl/en/article/a-no-thank-you-to-the-person-who-assumed-i-was-the-coffee-lady

[-] Goodman@discuss.tchncs.de 45 points 2 days ago
[-] cleanandsunny@literature.cafe 12 points 2 days ago

Thanks so much for these links. I haven’t had time to look into Dutch sources. I have two good female friends doing their PhDs in other universities in the Netherlands in the sciences, and I’ve never heard anything even remotely close to this! They love their positions.

[-] Goodman@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

This is a pretty holistic article on all the "badness" in english https://delta.tudelft.nl/en/article/victims-of-social-unsafety-always-draw-the-short-straw-at-tu-delft-an-official-report-that-would-be-the-end-of-me

Edit: Just generally read a bit on delta if you want to know more. It's the Uni press. They even got censored by the university when they first reported some of this if I recall correctly.

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[-] yesman@lemmy.world 93 points 2 days ago

There is an excellent Science channel on Youtube and Nebula with a Physics PHD who's made some eye-opening content about harassment and misogyny in STEM and Academia.

https://www.youtube.com/@acollierastro

[-] recklessengagement@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Love her videos! Really opened my eyes to a lot of this.

[-] mattd@programming.dev 5 points 1 day ago
[-] DaveyRocket@lemmy.world 40 points 2 days ago

She’s a great science communicator. Another famous Youtuber (Captain D) called her “the Jenny Nicholson of science” her Dark Matter video is my favorite, though her Gell-Mann Amnesia video is a “must watch” imho.

[-] BlemboTheThird@lemmy.ca 19 points 2 days ago

Watch her dark matter video. And the follow up. But for the love of God, dodge the comments. SO MANY people read the title of the video and then went to make comments calling her wrong, even though she spent like an hour specifically addressing the arguments they make.

Dark matter is not a theory. It's a problem. Fuck!

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[-] fckreddit@lemmy.ml 71 points 2 days ago

This just makes me sad. How can science advance, if we gatekeep one half of human population? In my academic career I have consistently found women to be smarter and better than men. Yet, these misogynistic ideas seem to persist. We deserve better than old farts with even older bias heading the institutions that make up our society.

[-] cabinet_sanchez@midwest.social 4 points 1 day ago

But now they're all "DEI hires," at least in the US, so we're fucked over here

When I was in elementary school, we always had a table at the back where the advanced students would do more difficult stuff than the rest of the class while not being completely isolated. The table was always me and 5 or 6 girls. When we graduated high school, I was the top-ranked boy - and the 22nd-ranked student overall. I just took it completely for granted that girls were smarter than boys (although I did perceive the very strong anti-intellectual culture among boys which seemed more impactful than native abilities).

It wasn't until I went to college that I started encountering the belief that men were fundamentally smarter than women, even though every college and university I've attended had more women than male students and the women had much better academic performance. That was my first taste of the power of group delusion.

[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 36 points 2 days ago

It's exactly that is why they're kept down. Tiny men are afraid that they won't seem as smart as the woman in the room.

As a man, I try to be different. I mentor the women around me and encourage them to do more, be better. I successfully got one of my mentee to negotiate her salary just yesterday even though she felt uncomfortable doing so. Try to be the change we need

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[-] Snowclone@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Half way through the Hidden Figures movie I started to realize that the racist sexist people in charge really deserved to lose to the Russians.

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[-] grue@lemmy.world 54 points 2 days ago

I read the first sentence in that big paragraph and thought "wow, going straight to the biggest problem right out of the gate instead of building up to it, huh?" Then I kept reading and realized the entire paragraph was about that same thing. Holy shit, that's a lot of sexism!

[-] Formfiller@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago

Beautifully spoken

[-] regrub@lemmy.world 76 points 2 days ago

Now I want an anti-acknowledgment section in my dissertation too

[-] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 24 points 2 days ago

Acknowledgmen't

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