I followed such trainings too. In the end the fruits of trying to mold me in a system that did not fit me was burnout. Trainings cost the institute money & they cost women time & head aches. They don’t help & may even hinder.
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Meanwhile, an institute may think “we have programs to stimulate women; we’re doing good”. So nothing will change soon I’m afraid. As I see it: Women don’t need to be “trained” to play the academic game. IMO we best stop trying to train people to emulate problematic >>
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behaviors of those succesfully adapted to an non-diverse and non-inclusive academic culture. We need a culture shift. An academic culture that values diversity & inclusivity, values science (not indices), values & rewards teams, collaboration, teaching, etc. /endrant

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Recently, two people told me/said a version of "there are lots of women in developmental (modelling) labs so everything is OK" and "women are now being trained in computational stuff"... The problem really REALLY is not a lack of well-trained women.
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Also just to be clear, two people = senior-ish men in relatively and very powerful positions men in the broad cognitive science and psychology fields.
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Yeah the problem really isn’t women failing to do things here. Geez.1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes -
Also it's not a lab-wise issue. Lack of women is a culture- and field-wide issue. One good lab is not like a patient zero and we'll all catch it.
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Also again to make it extra clear: Training women is important. But it's not causal in a meaningful way here. The problem is not that they don't get training, it's that they get pushed out. Everybody shows up with similar enough skill sets but somehow the women leak out.
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There are serious issues though for other fields because there almost no women do show up. Computer science in the West is basically all men. That sadly will never get addressed until the "male geek" trope, which I was lucky enough to grow up without, is dead.
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That's a huge social issue The West needs to grapple with and cannot be solved by academia or science. 
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Either way, the issue isn't training — don't waste ppl's time. Some useful training would be to train men not to be sexist & not to sexually harass/assault people. That's certainly something that with the right training could improve everybody's lives professionally & generally.
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Amen to that
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