I can only support you there. Imho, it's fair to see diversity efforts as highly problematic since they lead to discrimination, but on the other hand, what wome

I can only support you there. Imho, it's fair to see diversity efforts as highly problematic since they lead to discrimination, but on the other hand, what women have to endure in academia is astonishing. One example from someone near to me: She got permanently harassed by a colleague in the office. Friend of the boss - which complicated things, the boss on his own was nice and helpful - that guy even gave me the creeps later, as a man, with his constant women hostile comments and a specific aggressive behaviour. The guy was just unhinged, clearly dangerous, and that he looked strong did not help. It went so far that she hit him with a piece of equipment she just had in her hand after being verbally barraged by him again, an involuntary automatic reaction. Thankfully that made him back up for good. Another "nice" story at the same university: The married older professor, who told her how lucky her boyfriend at the time was to have her and a good job, clearly implying the compliment how attractive she was. He was right, sure, and a simple compliment is okay, no? But given the power dynamic it was not a good situation for her, and she saw it as more than a simple compliment because of the way it was delivered. Became a problem later, iirc, when a possible job offer would have meant working directly under him - no pun intended. Add to that the typical academic situations of professors hating other professors, not attributing work, and being in a discipline where the majority is men, and even that normal - but of course never great - part of academia always had the question mark of how much of that behaviour was made worse by discrimination against the minority she was part of. And if she had reached a good position, how often would she have been seen as only being there because of being a minority, and not because of her effort, even though she was as far as I could gather one of the best in her field, doing bleeding edge research in a highly prominent area? There were positive aspects of that environment, sure, but the negatives existed. She does not work in academia anymore.