We know that women students and staff remain underrepresented in Higher Education STEM disciplines. Even in subjects where equivalent numbers of men and women participate, however, many women are still disadvantaged by everyday sexism. Our recent research found that women who study STEM subjects at undergraduate level in England were up to twice as likely as non-STEM students to have experienced sexism. The main perpetrators of this sexism were not university staff, however, but were men STEM degree students.

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    10 months ago

    First, I don’t think they ever said

    … But I very clearly said that I assumed something like that and if this assumption is wrong, so is everything derived from it.

    But also, there is a very obvious “escape” when you’re ignorant or uneducated about something. It’s called learning.

    Human interactions are not rational, they are based on emotion and instinct and you can’t learn them from reading books or something. Only from really talking.