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In 2004, a report showed investment needed radical increase, through grants & bursaries, especially to encourage Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander women into STEM. http://science.uniserve.edu.au/usydcst/black&white.pdf …
14 years later, #WomenInScience funding exclusively benefits White women. #StridentWomen
Research on #WOC shows that racial minority women scientists deal with double jeopardy - racism & sexism.
Black women have to constantly prove their credentials.
Latin women are seen as "angry & emotional" if they are not deferential. #StridentWomen http://www.uchastings.edu/news/articles/2015/01/williams-double-jeopardy-report.php …
Latin & Black women scientists are mistaken as cleaners in their workplaces. Latin women scientists are asked to do additional admin for male colleagues. Asian women scientists are expected to be demure & face pushback when they don't conform to this stereotype. #StridentWomen
This is why #intersectionality matters: gender inequity is impacted by racism & other structural disadvantages.
Professor Jill Milroy says that in STEM Aboriginal women face “triple jepordy – race, gender and income inequality.” https://youtu.be/MHvtVTLuZ28?t=8m31s … #StridentWomen #indigenous
That's if we only focus on the numbers, as the Chief Scientist requested, without taking into account ongoing structural barriers & daily microaggressions that Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander women, other #Indigenous women, & other #WOC face to stay in STEM. #StridentWomenpic.twitter.com/YQDtdkjElw
Then there's major problems in how STEM curriculum is taught, how research is funded, & how academic labour is rewarded.
Stay strident, #StridentWomen, but never forget racism goes on top of gender inequity & other forms of injustice (homophobia, transphobia, ableism, classism)
BTW Chief Scientist says #StridentWomen need to recognise he's shaking many women's hands in medicine & life sciences. There is progress in that there were 2X as many Indigenous people in medicine in 2004 vs 2014. N=204 medical doctors & 310 students (w/o breaking down gender).
So when the Chief Scientist is lauding the "women" he thinks are flooding medicine & life sciences, I've already pointed out he's talking about undergrads & ignoring the sexist hierarchies they encounter.
He's also using Whiteness as a proxy for progress. #StridentWomen say nope
Right now, Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people are fighting YET ANOTHER of our weekly national racist debates - and one squarely about STEMM. New cultural safety code of conduct for nurses is being misrepresented by media as "racist." #StridentWomenhttps://twitter.com/OtherSociology/status/977701239352782849 …
Remember just last week Aboriginal health professionals were dealing with racist dog whistling on STIs https://twitter.com/OtherSociology/status/975850784481951744 …
Consider @IndigenousX, who connect the lost productivity that Aboriginal people waste defending against racism. https://indigenousx.com.au/the-truth-behind-the-nursing-code-of-conduct-lie/#.WrcoHYhuYRk … #StridentWomen
To recap - in one week, Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander women in STEMM had to deal with:
1/ Racism on sexual health;
2/ Media and Nurses Prof Association of QLD pandering to racism https://twitter.com/NACCHOAustralia/status/976762512359092224 …
3/ Chief Scientist devaluing discussion of inequity. #StridentWomen
That's a lot on top of triple jeopardy Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander women face daily as they navigate study & careers in STEMM.
#StridentWomen let's stay strident about numbers, without forgetting "progress for women in science" should elevate voices of Indigenous women
As I said in an earlier, how many Indigenous academics have been promoted to Prof / Dean/ PVC levels & beyond beyond? When will we see an Indigenous person appointed as a PVC or DVC in another area of a uni & not in/of the Indigenous area? We have disciplines! We have expertise!
These leadership positions are vital - not all universities appoint PVCs & DVCs for Indigenous learning and their strategic direction suffers for it. You're on point, however, that overall, the number of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander academics at senior ranks is abysmal!
I agree @OtherSociology that these positions are extremely vital. That’s not the point I am trying to make. I am saying we need to also see Indigenous academics & professional staff moving through the ranks of the academy & not marginalised in the Indigenous arenas.
I see a lack of recognition of the knowledge, skills, abilities, experiences & potential of so many Indigenous colleagues. I also see marginalisation & pp not considered for other roles rather than seeing the skills that can be transferred to other areas & our strengths.
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