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Issues related to being, or interacting with, those who are male, female, transgender, or non-binary in academia.
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Should I write that a student is a feminist in my recommendation letter?
There are a few reasons for this:
It calls out her gender. Very rarely do we write about the commitment of a male graduate student to the representation of women in STEM fields. … As much as I hate to say it, even mentioning it will bring the gender of the applicant to the forefront, and there's pretty strong evidence that a female applicant is inherently disadvantaged. …
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Gender, Independence, and Authorship
For those
of you who have served on faculty/post-doc selection committees, have
you seen the evaluations of comparative candidates differ according to
their gender?
Yes. This does happen. … In my experience, this is where most candidates where I am, regardless of their gender, race or ethnicity, fail to establish their independence. …
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How common is it for women to drop out of graduate school because they have children?
I am not a woman, but I am in a field where women are the majority of graduate students, so I have a non-zero amount of personal experience watching my friends go through this.
It's a harder road tha …
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In a grant application, how to address gender aspects when working in a highly technical field?
For example, a recent proposal we submitted that was to support a large number of graduate students noted that the recruiting department was fairly gender balanced - suggesting that the applicant pool … Will this project impact a particular gender? …
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What constitutes a declarable conflict of interest in gender studies?
I cannot imagine, for example, a journal intending for those writing in gender studies to disclose if they had been victims of intimate partner violence. …
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How to professionally handle sexist remarks by a student?
Many of these answers focus on your particular context, which you've since edited out, so I'm going to take a swing at answering it in the more general sense you've asked for.
If I witness a stude …
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May a man attend a workshop entitled “Young women in [domain]”?
"everybody is welcome to attend the workshop. We encourage all participants - male and female"
This is your answer.
The title (and indeed the content) is meant to showcase the work of promising …
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What is being done to make the academic environment more women friendly?
researchers who don't want to be treated as if they are sex objects (unwelcome flirting, comments on their appearance, etc), or have their accomplishments and contributions dismissed because of their gender …