"The teaching load is generally higher for female professors. Female professors are more likely to be asked to sit on committees. It is more difficult for women to obtain certain types of funding....Women are more frequently excluded from international networks than their male counterparts."
OpenSexism
Hi! I talk a lot about #sexism
Browse the archive: https://opensexism.wordpress.com
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https://medium.com/@OpenSexism
"Over a ten-year period, the research analysed 22,924 biographies featured on the English and Spanish Wikipedia front page. It found alarming disparities, not only in gender but also in ethnicity, religion, language, profession, and race. " #wikipedia
https://theconversation.com/wikipedia-has-a-huge-gender-equality-problem-heres-why-it-matters-251675
"Over the past few years, Naomi Huffman and Julia Ringo, cofounders of the Brooklyn-based editorial studio and small press Hagfish, have been building a spreadsheet of what they call “under-published women”—writers who have been unduly neglected by contemporary publishers."
"What if Asawa, and other artist-mothers who were her friends and fellow activists, founded a new métier for modernism, one that runs entirely counter to the modernist trope of the solitary genius toiling alone in his spacious studio? Well, in fact, they did."
" CZI also removed a line from its mission statement saying it wants to “build a more inclusive, just, and healthy future for everyone,” as well as mentions of “improving education” and “addressing the needs of our local communities.”
https://sfstandard.com/2025/05/13/nonprofits-furious-chan-zuckerberg-initiative-slashes-funding/
"In Wifedom: Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Life, I explore just how a woman so crucial to a man’s life and work can be erased from the story while she is alive, and then, after she dies, from history.
And I also ask, why is it so important in our culture to disappear women from the story? Turns out, it’s how patriarchy creates itself. Erasing women makes men into the main characters in life and in history, and women into supporting cast, or caste. "
OpenSexism boosted:
Women make up a majority of workers in fed depts targeted for layoffs: VA, Ed, Health, Treasury, HUD, USAID, CFPB, and VoA, pulling out career ladders. The Trump admin removed diversity data from govt websites, obscuring the effects of mass layoffs.
https://19thnews.org/2025/05/women-impacted-federal-layoffs/
"“Despite the progress we’ve made, outdated assumptions about women’s long-term commitment to work — particularly around motherhood — continue to surface in subtle and not-so-subtle ways,” Eloïse Eonnet, head career coach at The Muse, told Salon. “In my work with women leaders, I still hear stories of being asked in interviews how they’ll ‘manage it all,’ or being passed over for roles based on the possibility they might have children.”
@wikiresearch I don't see any projects looking at equity and gaps. A question for @EvoMRI et al, re: "Who are the main authors in different areas? Are there particular groups?" Will you be looking at/making transparent author demographics (specifically, gender, location)?
OpenSexism boosted:
@OpenSexism Jesus fuck...
1. Get off that platform, people!
2. Fuckin' AI
"All a user has to do is reply to an image someone has posted to X with a request to Grok to “remove her clothes.”
https://www.404media.co/elon-musks-grok-ai-will-remove-her-clothes-in-public-on-x/
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@OpenSexism same shit, different decade
What were we reading in 2017? https://bookshop.org/p/books/technically-wrong-sexist-apps-biased-algorithms-and-other-threats-of-toxic-tech-sara-wachter-boettcher/11186625
"Open source AI models are more likely to recommend men than women for jobs, particularly the high-paying ones, a new study has found"
"We find that most models reproduce stereotypical gender associations and systematically recommend equally qualified women for lower-wage roles...These biases stem from entrenched gender patterns in the training data as well as from an agreeableness bias induced during the reinforcement learning from human feedback stage"
https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/02/open_source_ai_models_gender_bias/
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Biologists, sociologists and gender experts agree: sex isn’t binary, and gender isn’t biology. Up to 1.7% of people are intersex. Male seahorses give birth. Gender is shaped by culture—not chromosomes.
Trump’s “truth” ignores actual science, according to a researcher who has studied the claims of ‘biological determinism’. https://theconversation.com/how-trump-promotes-a-radical-unscientific-theory-about-sex-and-gender-in-the-name-of-opposing-gender-ideology-extremism-250552
"And in his first 100 days as president, Trump has taken his role in a direction that leans into the most traditional form of patriarchy – a protector who knows what is best for women despite their demands to the contrary."
https://theconversation.com/what-trumps-first-100-days-mean-for-americas-women-255269
"In voice models, female voices were defined largely by pitch, falling between children and men. This was less a technical fact than it was a reflection of structural sexisms that had primarily male researchers considering male bodies as vocal models, and, bizarrely, blaming women’s voices for being ill suited to the technology rather than the other way around."
"we must consider the networks of links and hyperlinks between articles that affect the visibility of biographies. Specifically, if women’s articles are poorly connected to other articles, they become more challenging to find. It is essential to clarify that creating links is a complex skill that involves identifying related pages and adding hyperlinks to them, which has significant implications for information retrieval and visibility on the Web."
#wikipedia
"Epistemic violence remains pervasive in much of the moderated content online, yet its extent is challenging to measure. This paper introduces a novel approach to address this gap by proposing an Epistemic Violence Index applied to #Wikipedia biographies of Latin American women scientists and writers...constructing a graph representation of the Wikipedia network connections for leading female figures in science and literature from the 19th and 20th centuries"
@Aurorakutllovci You can read the original report here: https://antibullyingcentre.ie/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/DCU-Toxicity-Full-Report.pdf
"It took under nine minutes for TikTok to offer troubling content to their fake 16-year-old boys, which later included explicitly anti-feminist and anti-L.G.B.T.Q. videos. Much of the content blamed women and trans people for the standing they believe men have lost in the world. More extreme content appeared within 23 minutes. Male supremacy videos intersected with reactionary right-wing punditry within two or three hours."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/opinion/manosphere-online-boys-parents.html
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