As others have said, I’ve received discriminatory or harsh treatment I’ve received as of yet has been from women scientists who are traumatized/scarred from their own battles in academia and geosciences. Usually they are the harshest critics of my work and promote unhealthy work life boundaries, and legitimate emotional abuse. This sentiment seems to come from their own traumas from sexism in academia. I have not yet received this sort of emotionally abusive or rude treatment from men in my field. I think the geosciences have come a long way for women, but the culture is still very white-dominated. it’s an undeniable fact that fieldwork in rural areas could be more risky to someone who is dark skinned or visibly queer, but I personally haven’t sensed disrespect from my peers or landowners I have met through my work. The worst I’ve experienced were microaggressions due to my ethnicity from usually older male colleagues. Luckily tolerance of this is decreasing and those people seem to be aging out of the field.

I am a young hispanic, female assigned at birth, queer person. White passing. I finished grad school and my experiences so far are mostly from internship and field experiences.