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Women STEM students up to twice as likely as non-STEM students to have experienced sexism (www.hepi.ac.uk)
submitted 2 years ago by stopthatgirl7@kbin.social to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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 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.

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[–] blahsay@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Here you go

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

[–] mumblerfish@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

That seems to say that there is a slight over-representation of women in STEM (degrees earned) overall but only because of a single subject/job-cluster, "health-related", with a slight to very large under-representation in all others. ~~No "predominant" anywhere.~~ (well maybe health-related)

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

What do you think that article says that agrees with you?

[–] blahsay@lemmy.world -4 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] LWD@lemm.ee -3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

And how do you interpret this

[–] blahsay@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

44% is workforce stem. This article deals with university stats.

The relevant data is:

In STEM fields, the pipeline is leakiest in life science, psychology and social science fields, which are female-dominated at the undergraduate level — the female share of degree recipients in these fields was 58% at the doctoral level compared with 66% at the bachelor’s level in 2017. In contrast, the four fields with the lowest female shares among bachelor’s degrees recipients — geoscience, engineering, economics, and computer science — have higher female representation among PhD recipients (see here).

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

That's not "all" or "most" STEM fields. It only is about

the very disciplines that... seem to attract large numbers of women at the entry level.

How disingenuous of you to cut out that important sentence, which is right before you began your quote.