Many critics dismantled Damore’s science. READ MORE: Science Minister Kirstie Duncan on women in STEM That said, if research later shows that women are actually just biologically predisposed to accidentally earning a computer-science degree when all they wanted was to find LADY 101: Introduction to Cupcake Baking, I’ll bake James Damore cupcakes. The percentage of women working in STEM has remained nearly stagnant for 30 years in Canada, and the reasons for this include having to work alongside the kind of man who might confidently explain, in defiance of the research, that differences between men and women “aren’t just socially constructed because they’re universal across human cultures.” Women comprised 20 per cent of the STEM workforce in 1987 and 22 per cent in 2015, while the number of women earning STEM degrees increased.ĭespite what we’re sagely told, women are attracted to and are adept in these fields. Great flocks of Damores perch in their offices-or worse, on the corner of your desk when you’re up to your neck in stack traces-depositing their opinions on IQ differences on passersby and filling the air with their cry of “Women relatively prefer jobs in social or artistic areas.” When a woman takes maternity leave, she wonders how many of her colleagues are Damores, dismissing her as someone innately lacking the “drive for status.”ĭamores are everywhere. When she negotiates a raise-an arena in which she’s damned if she does and, as the Google memo explains, too innately high in “agreeableness” if she doesn’t-she weighs the possibility that she’s negotiating with a Damore. When a woman submits her resume, she knows it may be read by a Damore. While he’s hardly alone, Damore’s laborious effort provides indisputable evidence of the attitudes that many women in STEM face. READ MORE: Why there are still far too few women in STEM Yet all of their collective-issue raising, all of the ass-grabbing anecdotes, and all of the many studies showing that women are at a disadvantage when pursuing careers in STEM combined have not been given as much attention as one of Damore’s Wikipedia-linking footnotes. Women have been talking about the gender bias in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), and the multiple ways that plays out in the lab, for a long time.
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