Word: genderism
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Blythe M. Adler ’05, a math concentrator, says the gender disparity in her department—which boasts no tenured female professors and only one female undergraduate adviser—is irrelevant to her and may be natural...
Some science concentrators even say gender discrimination runs in the opposite direction at Harvard...
...explains that for her, and for most talented female scientists, the notion that one could be treated differently because of gender was unthinkable...
Trumpler says the disparity in the numbers of men and women in the sciences is a result of cultural expectations of behavior based on gender...
...that a really important part of learning an academic subject is putting it in your own words, in a lab meeting or discussion setting, and getting constructive responses, we have to make sure men and women feel equally comfortable doing that,” Trumpler says. “Gender would be at work in students’ choices to participate, to raise their hands, to risk being wrong and also the kind of expectations the teaching fellow has for them based on their gender and backgrounds...