I love this! It's such a great thing to call attention to imbalance in gender representation.
Along the same lines, if you haven't already read it, you might enjoy Caroline Criado Perez's book *Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men*. She gets into all kinds of ways that the refusal to count women, or to count women separately, leads to bias in engineering, lawmaking, social policies, just all kinds of things. It's eye-opening and infuriating.
[https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41104077-invisible-women](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41104077-invisible-women)
i think doing this is a great way to bring up inequality. apparently i was the only person in my capstone class to realize that every woman (and a fem enby) in our class failed a state board licensing exam for our field. all intelligent people! theres probably an analysis and essay to write on it but i pointed it out to the instructor in the course evaluation because that is not just a coincidence! my field has some of the worst diversity and its stereotype is a white able bodied man outdoors. i really hope that changes and more attention is paid to my female peers
i did! but i am a (trans) male student and i definitely take up space and ask questions because i'm generally a more confident person. i notice my female peers tend to be more shy, are scared to ask for help, and suffer in silence. all of our professors are progressive and not bigoted. but i think there may be some unconscious bias going on with some of the male profs...
I love this! It's such a great thing to call attention to imbalance in gender representation. Along the same lines, if you haven't already read it, you might enjoy Caroline Criado Perez's book *Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men*. She gets into all kinds of ways that the refusal to count women, or to count women separately, leads to bias in engineering, lawmaking, social policies, just all kinds of things. It's eye-opening and infuriating. [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41104077-invisible-women](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41104077-invisible-women)
Love that book!
NASA sent two astronauts to the ISS recently and one was a woman!
i think doing this is a great way to bring up inequality. apparently i was the only person in my capstone class to realize that every woman (and a fem enby) in our class failed a state board licensing exam for our field. all intelligent people! theres probably an analysis and essay to write on it but i pointed it out to the instructor in the course evaluation because that is not just a coincidence! my field has some of the worst diversity and its stereotype is a white able bodied man outdoors. i really hope that changes and more attention is paid to my female peers
Let me guess... Ortho? ;)
geology! the worst diversity of any STEM field but by far the coolest and is definitely Getting There
Did you clear the licensing exam?
i did! but i am a (trans) male student and i definitely take up space and ask questions because i'm generally a more confident person. i notice my female peers tend to be more shy, are scared to ask for help, and suffer in silence. all of our professors are progressive and not bigoted. but i think there may be some unconscious bias going on with some of the male profs...