Prez, Invisible woman Flashcards
Explain how workplaces cannot be a meritocracy with the subordination of women?
Workplaces do performance based bonuses / reviews
BUT women are criticized in ways men aren’t (ex. she’s too bossy, abrasive, strict, etc)
White men are also rewarded more then women or ethnic minorities
What factor makes you less objective, and more likely to behave in a sexist way?
Thinking you are objective
Why did 40% of women leave tech companies after 10 years (compared to 17% of men)?
Workplace conditions, feeling stalled in one’s career, and being undermined by superiors
Women were also passed up for promotion (and had projects dismissed)
Explain how career progression in academia is depended on being a woman?
Often are reviewed with gender shown
When they are reviewed without showing names/gender, women’s papers are rated higher
- This is not standard practice tho
Women are cited less then men
Women also receive less credits
Explain how female academics/teachers are treated:
Students are more likely to ask grade boosts, extensions, and rule bending from female academics
- Toll on women mentally (who have to publish papers)
Women also do undervalued admin work (coffee, housekeeping) - (seen as rude if say no)
How are female teachers evaluated when they stray from teaching while male history?
Ppl say it’s useless info, or unrelated to main topics
Women are also rated harshly in student reviews (ex. ratemyprof)
What is “brilliance bias”?
We think of words like brilliant, intelligent, and smart
We will associate them with a man
Where does brilliance bias come from?
We have written so many female geniuses out of history
Men work in fields (STEM) that ppl ascribe to brilliance
In a study with male and female unattractive vs attractive pictures, who did ppl call geniuses more?
For men attractiveness didn’t matter
For women the more stereotypically feminine women were not considered feminine
What happens to children between ages of 5 and 6?
Girls start to be uninterested in a game presented as for (“really really smart kids”)
They were interested at 5, so what happened
They are being taught brilliance does not belong to them
Side note: When little boys are asked to draw a scientist 28% draw a woman (when they started school it was 50-50)
How are letters of recommendation gendered? (in hiring)
Women candidates often described with MORE communal terms (warm, kind) and LESS active terms (ambitious, self confident)
When is it harder to correct the brilliance bias?
Once it has already be learnt
Why don’t we see women and girls explicitly interested in computer science?
- Misogyny in the field (that one asshole and his book)
- Women may show interest differently
How is the algorithms in the hiring process implicitly gendered?
Male coders are often considered the norm (often geeks)
- SO visiting a manga side was a predictor for being good at coding
- But women do most unpaid reproductive labour (so not the time to visit manga sites)
SO the algorithm discriminated against women
What is the double gender data gap?
- We don’t know what’s in the minds of coders who make the hiring algorithms
AND
- We also don’t know how discriminatory they are (also how many of them are used)
How did google deal with the issue of women not nominating themselves for promotions? (women are socialized to be modest)
Held workshops to encourage women to be more like men (typical male default thinking)
What did research find on self rating differences between men and women?
Men rated themselves as better then they are
Women rate more accurately
When might women be put off from jobs?
When described on Ads with masculine traits (need aggressive, persistent people)
Then they say they aren’t interested cuz personal reasons
How can a pay gap disappear?
When people disclose the pay data
One tech company had collected data on managers (and their salary choices) and had a committee monitor the pay data
- Pay gap pretty much eliminated
