"I am not aggressive enough to thrive in a combative work environment." The more Military-like a domain, the fewer women that work there.https://twitter.com/math_rachel/status/894602181734670342 …
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Replying to @vakibs
Military is an important model for tech. Most engineering schools started as military schools. Military funding was crucial to CS especially
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Replying to @vakibs
The culture will rub off. Military has made tech in its image. More so, military has made business in its image. Both have very few women.
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Replying to @vakibs
What I think is the most alarming is that the same is true for universities. The military funding ended up changing the DNA of academia.
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Replying to @vakibs
It is outrageous that there are so few women in academic positions. Despite the affirmative action and the large number of graduates.
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Replying to @vakibs
Women are in academic positions in large numbers, but they focus more on psychology, biology and humanities than on math, physics and IT.
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You probably forgot about Germany. But a sea of female students instructed by a male professor is a common sight in humanities here.
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Academia used to be peaceful. Now with temporary jobs, stress to secure grants & publish for the sake of not perish, women are dropping out.
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Replying to @vakibs
What do you mean by women dropping out? I thought their rates are increasing throughout academia?
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Their rates are increasing, but not in proportion to the number of graduates. https://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/blog/2012/may/24/why-women-leave-academia …
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I do not deny this part. But my point is that there is an inherent conflict between being a woman and working in a faculty role.
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It is a structural bias in how academia is structured. Much harder to correct than merely doing affirmative action in favor of women.
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