Fair enough. Gender equality is a primary focus of mine so I care a lot about the turn feminism has taken, central tenets, nastiness etc.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
I'm just a female expat stationed in Middle East trying to survive as the only female engineer in my team. Occasionally I rant against men.
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Replying to @yours_heidi
Oh, I do too. I also make sexist jokes about them.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @yours_heidi
But I get it. You'd rather focus on the reality in ur life than abstract principles of gender equality & theories abt it's cultural impact?
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Rather focus on how to increase the number of women in engineering, by being involved in training and mentoring. Twitter doesn't change life
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Replying to @yours_heidi
Twitter doesn't change life, no. Its just a good place to share ideas, essays, books etc which change attitudes which change life.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @yours_heidi
In real life I;m focused on tackling two problems affecting UK women. Unprosecuted honour crime & FGM & disempowerment in universities.
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Do you think aiming training & mentoring at women will make more of them want to enter engineering? Currently dominate healthcare &education
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Replying to @HPluckrose @yours_heidi
And we find that where women have most freedom of choice & opportunity, they're less likely to choose STEM. Does your experience differ?
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Interesting. I'm Malaysian, did my B Eng at local uni. Women outnumbered men in some engineering fac.s but more men went into engineering.
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I think Malaysia was one of the countries found to produce more equal numbers of women in STEM in the Norwegian Gender Paradox study.
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