Women report not “getting up the nerve” to ask questions, so researchers propose that “question time be unlimited” at scientific talks. Because, you know, time is a construct. If you won’t hang around waiting for others to speak, you must be a misogynist.https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0202743 …
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Obv, this kind of thing should also be open to nervous or socially awkward men tho.
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Helen, I wrote your comment down from an event you did with Heather, Peter, and James in Portland last year. May not be word for word: "If we are assuming the choices men make as the ultimate best choices, we are making men the default humans, which is sexist and infantilizing...
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I was reminded of this point too - which I feel isn’t really being echoed in what you’re saying now, Helen. I don’t think unlimited question time sounds like a great solution but nor do I think the answer is that women just have to learn to act like men to compete.
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Realistically, we do, I'm afraid. We can't socially engineer situations in which more women struggle so they don't. When I say that women don't have to make the same choices as men to be worthwhile, I still think they have to bear the consequences of those choices - eg lower pay.
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Yes, and if I remember the discussion correctly, Helen, you followed up the "men-default human" premise with the idea: it follows therefore that if women aren't making the same choices men are, they're doing something wrong or have fallen prey to malicious patriarchy programming.
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That is the claim, yes. I'm not sure if you see the same inconsistency that Rebecca does or not? Do you think if we accept that men & women differ on average, this gives us a responsibility to alter things to make women do the same things as men?
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I default to an anti-engineering bias when discussing solutions here. In the spirit of academic noblesse oblige the best that can be done is to NOT discourage women, in any reasonable context...and I think we may be there or close to there.
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I heard that Oxford University introduced the option for students to do their exams at home, as girls weren't doing as well as boys in their exams in relation to their general aptitude, and they guessed this was to do with females being more nervous under exam conditions...
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