A lexicon for gender bias in academia and medicine

the BMJ ^ | December 13, 2018 | Esther K Choo, Robert F DeMayo,

[saywhatagain]

Mansplaining is the tip of the iceberg. Many of the experiences of women in the workforce are so patterned and commonplace they have spawned an emerging vocabulary, which includes terms like bropropriation (when a man takes credit for a woman’s idea). Here, we propose a number of additions to the vernacular, which are likely to remain relevant for the foreseeable future.

[saywhatagain]

“Politics is downstream from culture.” -- Andrew Breitbart

Can not figure out should I laugh or raise a white flag.

Andropoly: Self perpetuating, male dominant leadership within an industry or organisation

Asheep: Opposite of “woke” when it comes to gender equity

Bro-mote-her: Man who advocates for the advancement of women

Clinical acuwomen: Emerging appreciation of how more gender balanced teams may have the potential to improve patient outcomes

Compounded misadvantage (or sexacerbating factors): Characteristics that, when added to sex and gender, amplify inequities—such as race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, gender identity, or disability

Degree deleting emceeing: When an introducer neglects to use the title “Doctor” while presenting a female speaker at a conference or similar professional gathering

Errors of bromission: Failure to proactively endorse qualified female candidates for leadership roles and other professional opportunities

Feternity leave: When becoming a mother is conflated with choosing to forsake the practice of medicine (also known as What They Suspect When You’re Expecting)

He-ja-vu: When a white male leader is replaced by another white male leader followed by another white male leader, and so on

Hersuitism: False notion that women in agentic or leadership roles is somehow unnatural

Himpediment: Man who stands in the way of progress towards gender equity

Hystereotyping: Preconceived bias that women are accommodating and emotional (and thus lack the desire or temperament for leadership)

Jackhanded compliwoments: Gender stereotyped descriptions of women in evaluations or recommendations that can have a negative effect despite being ostensibly complimentary

Mantoring: A man who only mentors other men

Maper: An academic journal article with no female authors and an uncomfortable number of male authors

Misteria: Irrational fear that advancing women means catastrophic lack of opportunity for men

Mo-man-tum: How men’s career opportunities accelerate over time, while women’s taper off

Moustaching: The act of filling senior leadership roles with men, and only men

Ova-looked: When a woman is bypassed for an opportunity even though she is eminently qualified

Perpetual brodemption: Cycle in which confirmed sexual harassers are sheltered from public view, shuffled around, and ultimately advanced, while experiencing only token (if any) disciplinary consequences

Repriwomand: When a woman is penalised for violating gender stereotyped expectations of behaviour

Selective mute-hism: When men fail to speak out against their colleagues’ misogyny

Womenial tasks: Helpful but generally unrewarded administrative chores disproportionately performed by women

XX-tinction: When it comes time to populate a speaking panel, choose board members, or fill a leadership position and all the qualified women appear to have vanished off the earth

[Don W]

How can we take any of this tripe seriously? Good Grief.

[Jim Noble]

Andropoly: Self perpetuating, male dominant leadership within an industry or organisation

IOW, normality.

[loveliberty2]

Idiocy: the lexicon outlined here.

[susannah59]

Extraordinary silliness.

Extremely hard to take any of it seriously.

[Flatus I. Maximus]

> Mantoring: A man who only mentors other men

A viable survival strategy. No man in his right mind wants to be alone in a room any woman other than his wife, at least in a business setting. These days, it’s playing Russian Roulette.

[caww]

Frankly this ‘junk’ needs to cease. People promoting all this gender stuff aren’t doing a thing for woman.....just the opposite. They need to remember who THEY are and not who they want the rest of us to believe they are....and are not.

[marktwain]

My experience, in 30 years of bureaucracy in the DOD, was that there was a pronounced corporate bias to promote women over men. Most of them turned out ok, but there was that clear bias.

Upper level management was constantly look for women that were viable candidates.

[caww]

Someone needs to write one up for women.......that would be a hoot!

[Mom MD]

Even in medicine 32 years and never heard them. I have been in leadership at various levels and never experienced bias in regards to my gender. If you act like a professional you are generally treated like one

[marktwain]

I remember looking for a job about 1984-5 with a fresh new engineering degree.

Any women in the field were snapped right up, hired, and kept on even if they were a bit cavalier with the work rules.

Men had a hard time finding any job in the field.. maybe there would be an offer from South Africa...

[grey_whiskers]

Whipped: the writers of this lexicon

[Slyfox]

[caddie]

This article is lies, at least in medicine.

Females always get excused from call, come in late, leave early, get preferred assignments, cop out of crappy work for personal reasons, use kids as excuses to be let go from work or call, and on and on.

Males just take up the slack the females create. For free. No compensation for doing it.