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Yeah, I guess in a way having a mentor from the same minority/background helps be more confident, especially if there aren't many like you in a field.
by bgar 13y ago
Yeah, I guess in a way having a mentor from the same minority/background helps be more confident, especially if there aren't many like you in a field.
- moocowduckquack 13y agoI think of it as social hacking. There are plenty of people in the world (not all of them men) who think that women should not be in education, should only be child carers, should not talk over men, etc, so if you just take the approach that you personally will be completely unbiased, then while you are not adding to that problem, you are also not doing much to assuage it. Neutrality is all very well, but it often takes a lot more than neutrality to get somewhere if a lot of society is pushing back the other way from where you would like to get to.