Dr Zuleyka Zevallos

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

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