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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 [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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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[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Other types of sexism include disbelief when a woman explains their experiences and baselessly denying evidence they present to support their claims.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Which proves my point. I question the data, I'm a sexist pig. It's a hard field when your data is shaky.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's sexist if you don't look further into the claims, instead just relying on your immediate assumptions about them being false.

If you immediately assume women are lying about experiencing sexism, and you don't look into it further at all, and your reasoning is based solely on them being women as opposed to men, then yeah I'd say that's pretty sexist. I'm not sure how someone could think otherwise.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago

I didn't make any assumptions. By default, the statement made in the paper is not sexist.

By making assumptions, you bring in your bias and sexism. You just made 3 or 4 to justify your position