Re:Barriers to Equality in Academia: Women in Computer Scien...
by bsder on Friday September 01, 2017 @03:55PM
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The problem is that this report runs aground on the fact that the percentage of female CS degrees was nearing its peak in 1984. So, apparently this is was "success" should look like, right? (I'm being sarcastic. It is not. There were quite a few structural reasons in the US economy while all this occurred. The massive dislocations in the manufacturing sector being the primary drivers).
As for the complaint about "3.2 Invisibility" ... welcome to the fact that it sucks to be male, too! It always annoys me when women somehow think that men magically get noticed without active efforts. That fact that you are invisible does not imply that everybody else is visible. Go talk to your introverted male friends and ask their opinion about the corporate environment. "Squeaky wheel gets the grease" is a saying for reason.
Maybe this should not be. However, if so, acknowledge that it should not be for both genders.
The primary thing that amazes me is that it really does seem that while institutional sexism does seem to have gone down, individual misbehavior seems to have gotten dramatically worse.
As for the complaint about "3.2 Invisibility" ... welcome to the fact that it sucks to be male, too! It always annoys me when women somehow think that men magically get noticed without active efforts. That fact that you are invisible does not imply that everybody else is visible. Go talk to your introverted male friends and ask their opinion about the corporate environment. "Squeaky wheel gets the grease" is a saying for reason.
Maybe this should not be. However, if so, acknowledge that it should not be for both genders.
The primary thing that amazes me is that it really does seem that while institutional sexism does seem to have gone down, individual misbehavior seems to have gotten dramatically worse.