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hssanya


Did you know that after they switched to blind auditions, major symphony orchestras hired women between 30% to 55% more? Before bringing in “blind auditions” with a screen to conceal the the candidate, women in the top 5 major orchestras made up less than 5% of the musicians performing.

shwetanarayan

so I believe it was actually more complicated than that, in interesting ways. Because at first, when they did blind auditions, they were STILL hiring more men.

…Then they put down a carpet, so that high heels didn’t clack on the floor,  and BOOM women were suddenly getting hired.

The testers didn’t even know that’s what they were picking up on, which just goes to show how tiny of a cue it takes for misogyny to kick in.

isaacsapphire

The case of blind auditions for orchestras and how it dramatically changed the gender makeup of orchestras is a very illuminating example of gender bias, and an interesting possible way of countering it.

jemthecrystalgem

I’m relieved and surprised that once the original blind auditions didn’t work they didn’t just throw their hands up and go “Nah women do just suck I guess”

puttingherinhistory

Didn’t something like this happen with a film festival? They noticed women were only winning something like 5% of the awards at the film festival so they switched to blind judging and suddenly women were winning about half the awards at the film festival, forgot which film festival it was though

lgbtpolitics

This is why I am against the reframing of sexism to “Gender roles are imposed on everyone and bad for everyone”. That is true, on a surface level, but accounts for none of the discrimination specifically against women that exists in every field. It is compounded by gender roles, women in stereotypically male roles face more discrimination than they maybe otherwise would, but it is not the whole story.

Music is not something stereotyped as a mans thing. In fact I would go as far as to say the opposite, a lot of people might well class the arts as a womans thing. Yet this sexist discrimination is still wildly prevalent in those fields that are seen as womanly.

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ihatemenandtherearereasons
jezebel.com

Men Take Paternity Leave Far More Often When Their Child Is Male

It is heartening to see the number of paternity leave programs increase across the U.S. and, as as recent study out of the University of California Santa Barbara reports, it is having a meaningful impact. In California, where paid-family leave was sanctioned by law in 2004, fathers are 46 percent more likely to take advantage of the option than before the law was enacted. However, researchers also discovered that men are significantly more inclined to take paternity leave if their child is male.
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foulmouthedliberty

this makes my heart hurt

kerryrenaissance

This does not surprise me at all. Unfortunately.

thredwoman

The study also reveals that “when the sample is limited to fathers married to employed mothers these gender effects become even stronger—fathers of girls do not respond to the policy at all…[Moreover,] the new leave policy increases joint parental leave by 58 percent if the infant is male, but not at all if the infant is female.”

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elonex

WhAt iF sHe Is YoUr DaUgHtEr??

Men don’t care. We told you.

ihatemenandtherearereasons

Exhibit 3206

prodigalwitch
iceyrukia

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People claiming that the joke is that “it’s because it’s gay” as if it takes away the fact that the op made a self-aware joke about how normalized BDSM has became where women are the ones having violence inflicted upon them by men. That was part of the joke.

maria-scariotes

Also gay being the punchline isn't like.... homophobia? They are trying to lie to defend themselves with another shit

prodigalwitch

the ‘humor’ that comes from “looking gay” is also based in misogyny and disdain for women + femininity

aspiringxxspinster
phys.org

More women in a STEM field leads people to label it as a 'soft science,' according to new research

When women make up more than 25% of graduate students in a discipline, men—and to a lesser extent women—become less interested in pursuing that discipline, and salaries tend to go down.
mindblowingscience

One factor that influences the use of the labels “soft science” or “hard science” is gender bias, according to recent research my colleagues and I conducted.

Women’s participation varies across STEM disciplines. While women have nearly reached gender parity in biomedical sciences, they still make up only about 18% of students receiving undergraduate degrees in computer science, for instance.

In a series of experiments, we varied the information study participants read about women’s representation in fields like chemistry, sociology and biomedical sciences. We then asked them to categorize these fields as either a “soft science” or a “hard science.”

Across studies, participants were consistently more likely to describe a discipline as a “soft science” when they’d been led to believe that proportionally more women worked in the field. Moreover, the “soft science” label led people to devalue these fields—describing them as less rigorous, less trustworthy and less deserving of federal research funding.

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pusheen-the-radical

the world hates women so much 🤗