Women STEM students up to twice as likely as non-STEM students to have experienced sexism - HEPI
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We know that women students and staff remain underrepresented in Higher Education STEM disciplines. Even in subjects where equivalent numbers of men and women participate, however, many women are still disadvantaged by everyday sexism. Our recent research found that women who study STEM subjects at undergraduate level in England were up to twice as likely […]

We know that women students and staff remain underrepresented in Higher Education STEM disciplines. Even in subjects where equivalent numbers of men and women participate, however, many women are still disadvantaged by everyday sexism. Our recent research found that women who study STEM subjects at undergraduate level in England were up to twice as likely as non-STEM students to have experienced sexism. The main perpetrators of this sexism were not university staff, however, but were men STEM degree students.

  • blahsay@lemmy.worldEnglish
    618·
    10 months ago

    Your Yale link is nonsense as I think you’re aware. Your original link shows a closer stat to reality though it’s based on 2020 data - currently stem is predominantly female.

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6759027/

    Interesting; you have to dig past the usual misandry sites to find an impartial source but Pew research found 53% of stem graduates female in 2018 and rising.

    https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2021/04/01/stem-jobs-see-uneven-progress-in-increasing-gender-racial-and-ethnic-diversity/

    You can also just check unis individually.

    • IHeartBadCode@kbin.social
      181·
      10 months ago

      Well I mean, do you read the links you provide?

      While women now account for 57% of bachelor’s degrees across fields and 50% of bachelor’s degrees in science and engineering broadly (including social and behavioral sciences), they account for only 38% of bachelor’s degrees in traditional STEM fields (i.e., engineering, mathematics, computer science, and physical sciences; Table 1).

      There’s where your 50% comes from. And as you can see, your link also aligns with the 38.6% previously mentioned.

      See? Now was that hard? See how once you explained yourself we could clear up the confusion you were having? Nothing wrong with that, easy to be confused by the various terms that are being tossed around.

      • blahsay@lemmy.worldEnglish
        322·
        10 months ago

        Nah you’re still being disingenuous. The stats don’t lie - even the stats you provided 😂.

        I would have thought you’d be happy to see stem taken over by women. Though if you were actually interested in equality you’d also be worried about why men aren’t applying. That’s a real problem - for women too.

        • IHeartBadCode@kbin.social
          122·
          10 months ago

          Nah you’re still being disingenuous. The stats don’t lie - even the stats you provided

          I mean you provided those last stats I just gave. That’s literally taken from your link.

          I would have thought you’d be happy to see stem taken over by women

          I think you’re conflating how I feel to facts. Fact is the 38.6% figure I quoted from your article. How I feel about it or the price of gasoline is notwithstanding.

    • IHeartBadCode@kbin.social
      102·
      10 months ago

      Interesting; you have to dig past the usual misandry sites to find an impartial source but Pew research found 53% of stem graduates female in 2018 and rising

      I mean, at this point you’re just cherry picking and not doing all that well with it. As indicated from, again YOUR source.

      The gender dynamics in STEM degree attainment mirror many of those seen across STEM job clusters. For instance, women earned 85% of the bachelor’s degrees in health-related fields, but just 22% in engineering and 19% in computer science

      That lines up with the whole thing I had mentioned here. You keep wishing otherwise, but you also keep providing evidence to the contrary.

      So I mean at some point I guess you’ll read your own sources OR you won’t. But the sources you keep providing agree with the original statement that women are under represented in traditional STEM studies. So I mean you square that with yourself however you want.

      • blahsay@lemmy.worldEnglish
        65·
        10 months ago

        “Women earned 53% of STEM college degrees in 2018, smaller than their 58% share of all college degrees.” - Pew research

        • mumblerfish@lemmy.worldEnglish
          53·
          10 months ago

          Yeah, so you are wrong. That is not predominantly. That is in stem overall, in most stem subjects, they are underrepresented.

          • blahsay@lemmy.worldEnglish
            35·
            10 months ago

            As you said ‘there is a slight over-representation of women in STEM (degrees earned) overall’

            My statement was that there’s more women in stem at uni these days.

            These seem to align to me.