Guess what?! Some men actually think that white men are the most discriminated against in academia. They do. For real.
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I fully sympathize with that emotion. As a white privileged male *some* of my male colleague understand when I point them to statistics like this one (titles in English from left to right are: student, master degree, PhD student, assist prof, associate prof, full prof).pic.twitter.com/MrNgHQNgJW
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Have you seen the statistics outlining the difference between the sexes on interest? And have you brocken these particlar stats down by department? Differences in outcomes doesn't always mean discrimination.
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Broken*
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Such a huge disparity between the percentages of female students and female professors can't simply be explained by a difference in interests.
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No shit. In the old days professors used to be 99% white males. And since professors hire professors, it's only changing veeeery slowly. Note that this is in the Netherlands, where the situation is particularly backwards, despite feigning to be a progressive nation.
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I was agreeing with your point, that what you showed reveals structural problems
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I would like to hear more about what you mean with the particular backwardness of the Netherlands though. As a Dutch person, living and studying in the Netherlands, I agree that in a lot of ⇒ -
ways the Netherlands really isn't as progressive as it claims to be. But I don't get the impression things are incredibly worse than in other places?
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IMHO Netherlands academics are pretty bad if I compare my experiences talking to the various flavours of Westerners in science in the last 10 years. But those are just my experiences.
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