Posted on 06/23/2018 5:56:28 AM PDT by ETL
A recent report highlights just how prevalent harassment is in academic science
The #MeToo movement has revealed sexual and gender harassment in every corner of American life. Science hasn’t been immune.
High profile cases — such as decades’ worth of complaints against astronomer Geoff Marcy, and allegations that geologist David Marchant verbally and physically abused women scientists in Antarctica — make headlines.
But it is the often underreported gender harassment, both serious and subtle, that contributes most to the scope of the problem. And efforts to recruit more women into scientific fields fall awfully flat when those women end up harassed out of their careers.
A report published on June 12 by the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine offers an exhaustive, 311-page look into just how pervasive the problem really is: More than 50 percent of women in academia say they have experienced sexual harassment.
“I am sure that many were aware of the issue, but were perhaps surprised by the magnitude of the problem,” says Marcia McNutt, president of the National Academy of Sciences.
The report offers a list of recommendations to combat harassment, many of which are focused on changing the culture of science to create an environment where there is more civility and safety.
But when the entire scientific training system is based on huge power imbalances between professors and trainees, creating that environment will involve more than team-building exercises and casual Fridays.
Real change may mean changing everything about the way scientific training works.
(Excerpt) Read more at sciencenews.org ...
I predict millions of cat ladies in the near future.
Gives new meaning to the Periodic Table.
Cat ladies?
… while conservatives are outnumbered 20-1, and lefties reject the idea that pervasive discrimination is the problem ….
Women that have no children, and are unwed, turn into cat ladies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_lady
Science doesn’t harass. OH, they mean SCIENTISTS!
Words have meanings.
But they know what they are doing. This is to force companies to hire anyone but straight White normal males.
Libs need to get their act together and put an end to the harassment.
Math & physics do not change.
"Changing the power structures — the structures in which science functions — is a big enough change. But it’s also a change within a bigger context. Academic science, engineering and medicine can change their funding and mentorship, Myhre says, “but changing how men behave? That would solve a lot of the problem.”"
2 + 2 needs to equal 17.
I thought about it afterwards and realized that you probably meant that.
It’s getting to the point where men don’t want to say anything to a woman at work out of fear of harassment claims. Join that with women wanting to care just about their career until the mid thirties, and being...loose morally until then, and men don’t want them then.
I wouldn’t lump the biological sciences in with GoreBull Warming.
Obviously, pre-pubescent castration is the only humane solution.
The validity of the evidence depends on how well it matches the predetermined conclusion. This is the scientific method, no?
>>But when the entire scientific training system is based on huge power imbalances between professors and trainees
Is a trainee like an intern?
#ItWasOkayWhenClintonDidIt
AND if you reject the advances or sexual questions of a homosexual or tranny YOU are homophobic, they can’t help themselves, they were born randy.
#GaySupremacistPride
Very true. Yet lots of women talk and/or joke about sex at work.
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