The Dark Saga of Katie Bouman, or the patriarchy at its finest
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Are you talking about the Swedish Academy? And anyway, what exactly is your point in regards to this issue?
People who are vicious online are also that vicious in real life. They may not be as outwardly vicious but it still lies within. I pity them and their existence.
Cute pic of her excitement, thanks for sharing that bit.
Cute pic of her excitement, thanks for sharing that bit.
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Oh, that is why she was excited, I thought it was 'cos she got an easter egg
Name the Stars
You can't see the stars, love. That's the ceiling.
Honestly I feel like everyone is trying to make the poor thing the figurehead of their movement, whether a model of goodness, or everything that's wrong with the world. They should leave her alone. She's just a person, and a hardworking scientist. She's a person, not a symbol, and she's not theirs to argue about.
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I think it's more than that. I think that it's a symptom of an undergoing change in the work place. Women started joining the work force in high numbers during the 1950s due to WWII. And by the 1970s, they started overtaking men in college enrollment. By the 1990s, women started enrolling into post-graduate programs (PhDs, Law degrees, Medical degrees, etc.). So, women have slowly started going into traditionally male dominated fields and currently there are a bunch of programs encouraging women to further enroll in still male dominated areas (primarily STEMs).
What we are witnessing is that fields where you traditionally only had men (because back then women didn't have the qualifications) are slowly incorporating women. And there are few theories out there in sociology that claim that there might be resistance to change coming both from men and women who prefer the status quo.
What happened with Katie is not an isolated case of people picking apart her contribution because by some chance she ended being the face of this discovery. There are other examples of toxic environment for women, minorities AND members of the LGTB community. Here are two articles about economics and how these groups are more likely to be denigrated by people that hide behind anonymity (but as @thetopher appropriately said it, this is not necessarily a men vs women issue because we don't know who is really behind the resistance):
Evidence of a Toxic Environment for Women in Economics (Evidence of a Toxic Environment for Women in Economics)
A pathbreaking new study of online conversations among economists describes and quantifies a workplace culture that appears to amount to outright hostility toward women in parts of the economics profession.
Women in Economics Report Rampant Sexual Assault and Bias (Women in Economics Report Rampant Sexual Assault and Bias)
The alienation is not limited to women. Among black economists surveyed, only 14 percent agreed with the statement that “people of my race/ethnicity are respected within the field.”
Gay and lesbian economists — and others who do not identify as heterosexual — were far more likely to report discrimination and disrespect in the field than heterosexual economists. Only 25 percent agreed that “people of my sexual orientation are respected within the field.” Twenty percent said they had been discriminated against on the basis of sexual orientation.
EDIT: If you think about it, BtVS is truly a show ahead its time. Not only the protagonist is a woman, but it incorporates the LGTB community as well.
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I totally agree!
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Here are a few research articles cited in the NYT based on data instead of perceptions:
Gendered Language on the Economics Job Market Rumors Forum (American Economic Association)
This paper examines the existence of an unwelcoming or stereotypical culture using evidence on how women and men are portrayed in anonymous discussions on the Economics Job Market Rumors forum (EJMR). I use a Lasso-Logistic model to measure gendered language in EJMR postings, identifying the words that are most strongly associated with discussions about one gender or the other. I find that the words most predictive of a post about a woman are typically about physical appearance or personal information, whereas those most predictive of a post about a man tend to focus on academic or professional characteristics.
Gender Differences in Recognition for Group Work (Gender Differences in Recognition for Group Work)
I find that men are tenured at roughly the same rate regardless of whether they coauthor or solo-author. Women, however, become less likely to receive tenure the more they coauthor. The result is most pronounced for women coauthoring with men and less pronounced among women who coauthor with other women. I contrast economics with sociology, a discipline in which coauthors are listed in order of contribution, and find that when contributions are made clear, men and women receive equal credit for coauthored papers.
Gender in the Journals: Publication Patterns in Political Science (Gender in the Journals: Publication Patterns in Political Science | PS: Political Science & Politics | Cambridge Core)
This article explores publication patterns across 10 prominent political science journals, documenting a significant gender gap in publication rates for men and women. We present three broad findings. First, we find no evidence that the low percentage of female authors simply mirrors an overall low share of women in the profession. Instead, we find continued underrepresentation of women in many of the discipline’s top journals. Second, we find that women are not benefiting equally in a broad trend across the discipline toward coauthorship. Most published collaborative research in these journals emerges from all-male teams. Third, it appears that the methodological proclivities of the top journals do not fully reflect the kind of work that female scholars are more likely than men to publish in these journals. The underrepresentation of qualitative work in many journals is associated as well with an underrepresentation of female authors.
Diversity in the Economics Profession: A New Attack on an Old Problem (American Economic Association)
The economics profession includes disproportionately few women and members of historically underrepresented racial and ethnic minority groups, relative both to the overall population and to other academic disciplines. This underrepresentation within the field of economics is present at the undergraduate level, continues into the ranks of the academy, and is barely improving over time. It likely hampers the discipline, constraining the range of issues addressed and limiting our collective ability to understand familiar issues from new and innovative perspectives. In this paper, we first present data on the numbers of women and underrepresented minority groups in the profession. We then offer an overview of current research on the reasons for the underrepresentation, highlighting evidence that may be less familiar to economists. We argue that implicit attitudes and institutional practices may be contributing to the underrepresentation of women and minorities at all stages of the pipeline, calling for new types of research and initiatives to attack the problem. We then review evidence on how diversity affects productivity and propose remedial interventions as well as findings on effectiveness. We identify several promising practices, programs, and areas for future research.
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But generalized perception can affect behavior. If I believe that people are unfair with me because of my age, gender, race, religion, etc., I might more aggressive, or try to be nicer, and so on.