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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So all in all, I find this idea that women can be trained to be thick skinned is fundamentally flawed. Not all men are thick skinned anyway and they magically do pretty well, right? And relatedly, training women generally as a solution to gender gaps is misplaced.
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People have been telling me my whole life to be thicker skinned and all I wanna do is scream.pic.twitter.com/NkxrAmvGva
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Berna D. Retweeted Berna D.
yup! on a similar point, i had written this a while backhttps://twitter.com/zerdeve/status/1013993900325736448?s=21 …
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Berna D. @zerdeveReplying to @dan_p_simpsonInteresting how long it has taken me to realize that most advice I have received all my life was about how to become more like a (middle aged white) man! I tried and failed and tried and failed for so long. Bah! I hate all advice as a result now. And people to a large extent too.2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes -
I'm as thick skinned as they come and apparently have many of the prized 'male' qualities. And they tell me to act more feminine. Be nice, warm, sweet, less ambitious, more accommodating, etc. So really fuck it all. Be the best version of yourself. The end.
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I forgot the most common and most likely to make me dream of strangling you: you're intimidating
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Woman doing a thing ergo tell her she's doing it wrong. 

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Lose, lose, either way.
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Gender policing is so awful.
And it works to harm and to trick so many people into playing along and further harming others.0 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
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