Naturally, this works both ways. :)
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It might be totally unmotivated by "women are inferior" explicitly, but it's certainly something about picking up on the stats of how women
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aren't as well represented the higher up we move academically.
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And yes, like others have noted in other threads the men tend to be promoted overall and the women tend to be demoted.
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I had a case recently of somebody outside academia refusing to believe in not an undergrad, another saying "you could be doing a phd" etc.
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It's the constant noise in my life with respect to my work when I talk to non academics.
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~ 35% of my math, engineering, CS, linguistics, and philosophy professors in Istanbul were women (1990s & 2000s).
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That's really cool. I have actually never interacted with a Turkish person who has been sexist to me. Turkey like Cyprus doesn't have the
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"male geek" stereotype. So actually a lot of women go into technical fields.
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same experience: Turkey, Macedonia and Iran (but that seems obvs, considering recent news)
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It's a complex mix. Some part of it is driven by Cypriot (and related mentalities) basically saying "women suck at everything" which is
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freeing. If I suck at everything then I can suck at what I like. In UK we have areas that women are supposed to b better at: English, Bio...
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This results in predictable skew of women going into areas they are told they are better at. It's complex. Very complex.
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In Cyprus the concept that women would be better at men at something other than housework is anathema, but also taken as such a given that
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