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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] 3 points 10 months ago

Dismissing sexism within a particular group because it is disproportionately prevalent in that group is, frankly, treating that sexism as acceptable.

You can just as easily extend this approach until you either reach a group where it's evened out, or is the entirety of humanity.

"It's more prevalent in stem? No, you have to look at university students overall"

"It's prevalent in university students overall? No, you have to look at all students"

"It's prevalent in students as a whole? No, you have to look at everyone involved in education"

"It's prevalent in education in general? No, you have to look at public services as a whole"

"It's prevalent in public services as a whole? No, you have to look at all non-private entities"

"It's prevalent across non-private entities? No, you have to look at all forms of work"