Posted on 04/07/2015 5:38:47 AM PDT by outpostinmass2
Donna Riley, an engineering professor at Virginia Tech, visited the University Monday to discuss gender-based violence in science, technology, engineering and math fields. Riley discussed and analyzed the engineering, academic and broader U.S. cultures which work together to deny gender-based violence.
Riley said gender-based violence not only includes rape, but also stalking, intimate partner violence, harassment, non-consensual sexual contact, verbal abuse and misogynist hate crimes.
In the Survey of Academic Field Experiences published by science journal PLOS One in 2014, Riley said two-thirds of women surveyed reported being the victim of sexual harassment while researching in a scientific field, and 26 percent reported being sexually assaulted, usually by senior members of the research team.
Riley said men in the field experienced harassment and sexual assault as well, but chose to focus her talk on women.
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Assualted like the student Jackie alleged at UVa? Or assaulted assaulted (to paraphrase Whoopie...)?
I find this hard to believe. Unless violence includes being told to be quiet (on occasion).
Cause when I think of violent predators, I think of engineers.
Hard drinking yes. Cussing a lot, probably. But assault?
I have worked in STEM for 30 years. This culture she talks of does not exist.
I’ve been in engineering for a long time and asked a few female co-workers out for lunch/drinks (when I wasn’t their superior). Sometimes a second time after they declined the first. I suppose today that would be considered assault...
Yes, most attractive ladies I’ve met in the field have had at least one bad “experience” at work (few openly share) but it’s no different than what they would experience anywhere else. A small percentage of men are assholes everywhere and it has nothing to do with STEM. It’s simply a reality of being a woman ANYWHERE and real gentlemen have to be on watch for it.
Females are 60% of college graduates and dominate medical & law schools. They’re given every advantage in primary & high school, while males are drugged up with Ritalin for acting as their sex programs them to do. Whoever and whatever this “woman” is, she needs to shut her lying blow hole.
GLBT Educator of the Year in 2010, so no surprise. Riley’s resume is heavy on government and activist experience, but this is her first professorship. Professional man hater and activist.
Feminists consider "telling a woman she's wrong" to be a violent assault on her feelings.
In 30 years in high tech, I never saw it.
I saw men getting stalked by women looking for Sugar Daddy’s.
Women using gender to force management to get a promotion.
Lots of normal drama that happens between men and women.
Flirting on both sides.
Arrangements.
Affairs.
Saw all of this in High Tech but never saw or heard of women being raped are assaulted.
Considering the 20-1 ratio, if it was common, people would have heard about it at the water cooler.
I believe it but she is masking the reason. Engineering students tend to come from cultures where women are not respected very well, especially American women. American women are portrayed as unpaid strippers and prostitutes overseas. Not only that, “Stalking” is actually a common way of courting in some cultures.
A lot of Aspies in that area as well.
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If rape and assault are common in high tech then I would have noticed a constant stream of police cars and investigations. I can’t recall seeing this even once.
They don’t typically share unless you get close. And these things 99% of the time happen in a one-on-one situation where you can’t prove anything.
I’ve never heard of straight up rape or beating. But stalking, touching, grabbing and/or putting hands inside clothes happened to pretty much every attractive coworker I spoke to.
I do believe it happens but it’s not STEM or ALL men. It’s the 1-5% of men everywhere that are assholes and take advantage when they are alone with a woman.
So much for engineering being free of “social justice” communist agitation.
“Engineering students tend to come from cultures where women are not respected very well”. Really, I am a third generation engineer and I don’t know of this culture.
The stereotype for scientists, engineers, and techie types is that we're shy, introverted, socially awkward. Guess what, it became a stereotype because there is such a large element of truth to it. Will we talk and joke with each other? Sure, plenty, and as my non-techie friends/family have let me know, most other people don't get our jokes. But when it comes to "real world" interactions, especially with the opposite sex, we revert to type. It is a stereotype and I own it. I have consciously worked to overcome it, but I see it in my friends and coworkers every single day.
This group of people, with these demographics and characteristics are just not the kinds of people who act out, who are that forward or forceful with the opposite sex. This 26% number, one quarter, really? Run the numbers people. Given the number of people in the various STEM fields if this were really happening the courts would be overflowing and every tech company would be continually in court or dealing with cases.
Personally, in 35 years, with 15+ in leadership positions I have had to deal with a "sexual harassment" issue exactly one time. Once. That wasn't even an intentional harassment. A male subordinate of mine spoke to a female coworker a little too frankly and openly about her pregnancy. He wasn't getting off on it, he had no idea he was making her uncomfortable. If anyone is familiar with the Sheldon character on "Big Bang Theory" that was just about exactly what this was. That was it, in 35 years, with hundreds of male and female coworkers. If the 26% number was anywhere close to realistic I'd have had to deal with a dozen or more issues.
When were you last in college at a Tech school? Most STEM students now are foreign or first generation American now.
Translation, too many engineers vote conservative. They need to be indoctrinated in liberal education centers with more socialist hatred of America.
To those already employed in corporate 'murica, "diversity training" political re-education can be a reality. "Corporate compliance requires that all employees that this online course and evaluation test."
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