That's a great explanation! How can I put it into simple words to explain it to male colleagues who think women are taking their jobs. One even told me that in some uni in NL opted for hiring only female postdocs to compensate the gender imbalance and it's unfair
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What do you find bad about them? So far, most of the lecturers I've had, except for maybe one or two, have been really good and managed to make me think critically. We have a very diverse team of lecturers in my major (Japan Studies), so I guess that might play a role.
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No idea about Japan studies, sorry. Only speaking about what I have witnessed in my (sub)field(s) from Dutch men and women and people working in the Netherlands.
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I saw this work being presenting at CogSci last year — might help shed light on stuff a little as I was amused at where Dutch ends up:https://psyarxiv.com/7qd3g
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I don't know how much this really says though. It says Japanese has a way lower gender bias, but when you look at the position of women (wage gap, % in managerial positions), the Netherlands scores a lot higher than Japan.
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Of course language can play a role in how people think, but economic and sociological processes play a much larger role imo. Then again, I might be biased because those things are more important in my field :p
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While the Dutch word for scientist has a male-bias (wetenschapper, - er is a male suffix of sorts) and the Japanese word for scientist completely lacks such a bias (研究者=research person), Japanese academics are characterized by even more institutional biases towards women.
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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 ⇒