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Heck, I'm a white male, and I've gotten mistaken as en employee at the big box hardware store dozens of times. I note that the article doesn't compare the expe
by tjic 12y ago
Heck, I'm a white male, and I've gotten mistaken as en employee at the big box hardware store dozens of times.
I note that the article doesn't compare the experience of women of color versus any other demographic.
As Lord Kelvin said: "“When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarely, in your thoughts advanced to the stage of science.”
- FLGMwt 12y ago... you see how it's different, right?
- jpwright 12y agoWhat about this makes you jump to defend the status quo? It's obviously a far more hurtful experience when it happens somewhere you actually work, and when you're already a minority in a white male dominated environment. But I don't really think the point of this is to suggest we get better at identifying janitors. It's to point out a symptom that suggests a larger problem. The report does compare the same figures to white and Asian-American women, which reported the same experience at 32.4% and 22.3% respectively. I'll leave it to you to find figures for men (they may not exist, for a reason). If you're interested, you should read the full report. It's based on a survey of 500 female scientists. It's not just anecdotal evidence. http://www.toolsforchangeinstem.org/double-jeopardy-report-viewer/ http://www.toolsforchangeinstem.org/double-jeopardy-report-v...