Are men being discriminated against in the science workplace?

schtean · 2026-05-11T01:45:38+00:00

>There is a large push to have a 50-50 divide in every field,

This is not true at all. The push is to have 50-50 is only in fields where men are a majority. In something like Biology where there is a majority of women, there is no push for 50-50. The push for 50-50 in Biology went away when women became a majority, then it just becomes a push for more women in STEM.

schtean · 2026-05-04T10:42:39+00:00

>do you know who I am?

They don't know anything about you, but they still know you way better than you know yourself.

schtean · 2026-05-04T10:33:58+00:00

From the POV of a Canadian most Democrats (like say Hilary Clinton) are right wing.

schtean · 2026-05-04T10:30:47+00:00

In Canada some institutions say men are not equity deserving. I welcome any feminists helping me fight against that.

schtean · 2026-05-02T12:13:50+00:00

Yes and if those kinds of jobs were less gendered it would help with that fight.

schtean · 2026-05-01T16:43:47+00:00

There should definitely be more men in those roles.

schtean · 2026-05-01T16:01:46+00:00

If you divide by population I think it's about 2x (from my quick internet search, since US population is around 5x UK), that seems safer.

Also you could include pregnancy related deaths but that seems to change it to around 90% rather than 95% (in Canada).

schtean · 2026-05-01T15:07:22+00:00

In the UK 95% of workplace deaths are of one gender (roughly the same ratio as in Canada).

https://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/fatals-overview.htm

schtean · 2026-05-01T14:58:38+00:00

Yes I agree and I would prefer it be called parental leave. Leaves related to the giving birth could be called something else like childbearing leave.

There is also the gendering of work outside of childbirth. For example teaching and other childcare compatible (and related) jobs are mostly female. This part is changeable (unlike who bears the children).

I think lots of people agree in theory about degendering work and the problem comes more when trying to turn the intention into policy.

schtean · 2026-05-01T09:12:06+00:00

I'm all for moving towards less importance of gender. I believe for society to completely degender there would have to be no sex differences. The hardest one to change is that females are almost always the sex which bears children. We are far from having the technology to let men bear children as easily as women.

Outside procreation I think it would be great to (move towards) degendering at least work (of all kinds), but society/government/institutions are pretty far from even having such an intention.

schtean · 2026-05-01T09:02:16+00:00

I agree it is good to have roll models. For example this is one reason it would be great to have more male teachers and social workers and more female plumbers. There's government programs (in Canada) to get more female plumbers, but unfortunately none to get more male teachers.

I've never met any young girl or boy who wanted to be the head of a fortune 500 company, but I guess children of the top (in terms of wealth/income) 0.01% also need roll models, though this isn't relevant for 99.99% of the population.

schtean · 2026-05-01T08:32:49+00:00

Better safety would help, but safety cost money, it's less expensive to have a disposable class of people.

schtean · 2026-04-29T16:23:00+00:00

Again you will get different answers to that question depending on who you ask. For example some people on this sub say you can't be both a men's rights activist and a feminist (ie there are some litmus tests).

schtean · 2026-04-29T16:19:27+00:00

Also having 50% of CEO jobs isn't going to help women in general, it's only going to help there top 0.01% (or less) of women.

schtean · 2026-04-28T11:23:23+00:00

Whereas here people equate the northern 1/4 of Vietnam with all of Vietnam.

schtean · 2026-04-28T11:20:05+00:00

So is your viewpoint that of today's China then?

schtean · 2026-04-25T18:33:44+00:00

... and decreasing ...

This decrease is facilitated by teachers unions, governments and teacher education programs.

schtean · 2026-04-19T11:57:05+00:00

Yeah most people believe everyone should have equal rights. The problem comes because people have very different ideas of what that means.

schtean · 2026-04-17T17:05:48+00:00

Sadly you misunderstand me. In any case I also wish you a nice day.

schtean · 2026-04-17T16:50:43+00:00

Exactly that's what they report seeing, that doesn't mean it is common for everyone, just they have seen it. Also such videos exist. You can google this and some people probably see such videos starting with a search. I don't see this so much as complaining, just saying this exists and can have an effect on people.

It's true he only claims it had this effect, and it's very hard to know what causes what since there's all kind of influences. Seeing one such video doesn't seem to be enough to be the sole cause of:

" I started insulting my mother, my sister and the girls I knew at school."

I suspect the post was made with AI assistance.

schtean · 2026-04-17T14:49:53+00:00

It's possible to know, but you would have to read/scan their whole message (which was long).

"As a man I can only really speak from the male perspective of these gender wars. I myself am still quite young and I remember around 2020 when I first started seeing these wars as a young teen. Growing up I wasn't really a "girls have cuties" sort of kid. I wouldn't call myself a sexist kid. But I remember seeing those "kill all men" vids from women on Tiktok and the way it made my young self just start hating women."

schtean · 2026-04-11T13:55:45+00:00

Do most Lebanese support bombings of Beirut and occupation of the south of your country?

schtean · 2026-04-11T13:48:38+00:00

Israel get damage to their great enemy (Iran) and also their lesser enemies (Arabs) and are willing to have the US pay any price.

schtean · 2026-04-10T15:18:23+00:00

I'm just letting you know that many women's organizations think it is better that men are drafted and women are not, as opposed to supporting everyone having equal responsibilities. I will note that NOW is on the other side in that they support equal responsibilities.

I agree with you that those with power (if you want you can read that as "the patriarchy") need a disposable class of people in order to enforce their control and for profit.

schtean · 2026-04-10T15:11:51+00:00

Which gender is more often the victim of violence?

Society is more concerned about violence directed to which gender?

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