"Universities"? or "Faculties"? or "Disciplines"? My guess is Faculties (with, perhaps, even a few disciplines in a few places switching faculties because they feel so out of touch with the rest of the faculty? Have switches like that happened in the recent past, say 20th C?)
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So Q is, does anything really change? Physics is already coded male, and unlikely to change. Likewise Art History. English becomes *more* female? History (or foreign languages) *more* female?
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I might worry that fields that are coded male but mostly useless, like physics, just evaporate, if they no longer fit in a coded-feminine uni but also won’t fit in a coded-masculine-job-preparation bootcamp. Some third type of non-uni state-funded research institution needed?
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I guess I am too far from day to day university to know if this is a realistic concern. I don't see Physics or Engineering as being considered useless soon (though Theoretical HEP may require a re-appraisal).
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Yes. Saying that physics is useless displays a lot of ignorance about the whole area. People focus too much on the stale situation with particle physics while many other fields (e.g. material physics) are having steady progress.
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Yes, I apologize; this was an inaccurate generalization.
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I think I was perhaps a bit too triggered myself. Sorry. Physics has the burden of what is publicly interesting and what is really happening not well aligned. This at least makes my life a bit isolated sometimes. Few people like to actually have a conversation about my science.
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MOP: Wow you are an astrophysicist! ME: Yes. I study interstellar medium. MOP: What the hell that means? ME: I like plasma and cold space dust. Did you know that our understanding of dust is having a revolution? MOP: Meh. Can you answer my basic questions about Dark Matter?
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We can probably glean the consequences from the many social niches where universities have always been coded as feminine, college boy.
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For most of history universities were religious schools. For a while they got colonized by STEM / objectivity / enlightenment / modernity. Now that is ending and they are reverting to their traditional role as seminaries.
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incumbents determine social prestige of an occupation and can influence the prospective applicants
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