1. Prevalencia en Campos Dominados por Hombres.
Numerosos testimonios señalan que el sexismo es una experiencia común y profundamente arraigada para las mujeres que trabajan en campos tradicionalmente masculinos como la ciencia, la tecnología, la ingeniería y la academia, donde enfrentan un ambiente hostil y barreras sistémicas.
- Any woman who has worked in a male dominated field already knows this deep into their core. Sexism is alive and well.
- Wow, this is something. The sexism and misogyny that women in stem, and especially women of colour, have to deal with even today are shocking.
- Unfortunately it's still a major issue across many fields and vocations in stem. What shocks me is how few people know the sexism women experience.
- Sexism is rampant in engineering. The percentage of women who leave the field after entering it is startling and the number of women who don't want to enter it because of sexist is not easily waved off.
- Anyone woman who has gotten an education in a stem field knows that it's insanely hostile towards us in so many ways. Like yeah, it's possible, but the rot of institutional sexism is still there.
2. Manifestaciones del Sexismo Laboral.
El sexismo en el trabajo se presenta de diversas maneras, incluyendo brechas salariales, ser ignoradas para oportunidades de crecimiento, acoso personal y microagresiones diarias como interrupciones constantes o la devaluación de sus contribuciones y responsabilidades.
- I quit when i found out every single man in my department was paid at least 10k a year more than me. Rather than give me a raise, they lost four years experience and hired a man to replace me, on 12k a year more.
- Me and other women with 10 years of experience were overlooked for recent graduates young men with zero experience. It’s awful. People died because of it.
- You see subtle sexism in everyday life. Very subtle example, i arranged some small office renovations and the email said "thanks for your help in coordinating this" when in actual fact, i arranged it entirely myself.
- Sexism in the workplace isn’t just about harassment. It’s about women being interrupted more, talked over, passed up for leadership, and expected to do more emotional labor just to be seen as competent.
- I can go into a meeting as the subject matter expert on a topic and have men sneer, roll their eyes at objective technical information, mock federally mandated requirements, and talk down to me like i’m the dumbest person they’ve ever met.
3. El Problema Sistémico e Internalizado.
Más allá de los actos individuales, el sexismo es un problema estructural, protegido por sistemas y culturas organizacionales. Este fenómeno es tan insidioso que puede ser perpetuado incluso por otras mujeres en posiciones de poder, quienes a menudo se vuelven cómplices del sistema opresivo.
- The answer is structural sexism and harassment. Same reason for women in stem groups, etc.
- Someone in the replies tried to argue that this doesn’t count as sexism because my manager is a woman. As if one of the most insidious things this oppressive system does isn't making its victims complicit in their own victimization.
- Yep, some of the absolute worst sexism i've experienced in the industry has been from women in positions of authority above me in my management chain.
- Sexism in academia is real and protected by systems meant to ensure equality.
- It's bad enough when men gaslight and minimize women's experiences of sexism and bias in the workplace. It is moral injury compounded on top of moral injury when women do it.
4. La Negación y la Falta de Conciencia.
Una barrera significativa para erradicar el sexismo es la falta de conciencia o la negación directa por parte de los hombres, quienes a menudo se sorprenden al enterarse de las experiencias de sus colegas femeninas o simplemente afirman que el problema ya no existe, invalidando así la realidad de las mujeres.
- It amazes me sexism in specialized fields always come to a shock to men when they learn about it. “whaat? there are men gatekeeping stem? i had no idea.”.
- Had a white man fellow grad student in the cohort a year prior to me tell me in a cultural anthropology seminar that women in stem did not experience sexism because he was pretty sure his wife, an engineer, didn’t experience any.
- My entire life has been accommodating men who were less intelligent and educated than me while i was paid the least. If i corrected one with facts i got scolded. I was also repeatedly told sexism doesn't exist.
- Another day, another instance of one of my phd students (who is a woman) being told by some guy at work that academic sexism is not really a thing anymore at universities.
- I remember a convo i had with a former female boss. I said to her “do you recognize sexism in your position?” she replied of course she did and then i asked her what if a man said it didn’t exist? she said, “how would he know!?”.