Quelle: Hochschulmanagement. Zeitschrift für die Leitung, Entwicklung und Selbstverwaltung von Hochschulen und Wissenschaftseinrichtungen, 17 (2022) 3+4, S 85–90
Quelle: Hochschulmanagement. Zeitschrift für die Leitung, Entwicklung und Selbstverwaltung von Hochschulen und Wissenschaftseinrichtungen, 17 (2022) 3+4, S 91–95
CEWS Kategorie:Wissenschaft als Beruf, Gleichstellungspolitik
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Women’s experiences of racial microaggressions in STEMM workplaces and the importance of white allyship
Autor/in:
Moore, Robyn; Nash, Meredith
Quelle: International Journal of Gender, Science and Technology; Vol 13, No 1 (2021), (2021)
Inhalt: This article explores how gender interacts with race, ethnicity and/or culture to structure the microaggressions experienced by visibly and culturally diverse women in Australian Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and Medicine (STEMM) organisations. We focus on these women’s experiences to disrupt the normative erasure of race from the workplace diversity context. We conducted 30 semi-structured interviews with women in academia, industry and government who self-identify as women of colour or as culturally diverse. We use an intersectional lens to show that the challenges experienced by visibly and culturally diverse women cannot simply be subsumed under gender. Rather, race and gender intersect to create overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination and disadvantage. These issues are largely unintelligible in STEMM fields as science is positioned as gender- and race-neutral. Consequently, despite their devastating impact, racial microaggressions may be invisible to members of the dominant racial group—those most likely to be the peers and managers of visibly and culturally diverse women. White managers and peers can act as allies to women of colour in STEMM by respecting and amplifying their concerns. Learning to recognise and confront racial microaggressions can help make science workplaces more inclusive of all scientists.
Dual-anonymization Yields Promising Results for Reducing Gender Bias : A Naturalistic Field Experiment of Applications for Hubble Space Telescope Time
Autor/in:
Johnson, Stefanie K.; Kirk, Jessica F.
Quelle: Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 132 (2020) 1009
Inhalt: Using archival data, we examine the effects of the Hubble Space Telescope Time Allocation Committee (HST TAC)’s decision to adopt a dual- rather than single-anonymous review process. The change involved removing, to varying degrees, information about the Principal Investigator (PI) with the goal of reducing bias against women. Proposals led by female PIs were significantly more likely to be accepted in the five cycles following the changes compared to the 11 cycles using a single-anonymous review system. Taking a closer look at why these changes emerged, we examined data at the reviewer-level in the cycle immediately preceding the change compared to three of the cycles after the change. We found that male reviewers rated female PIs significantly worse than they rated male PIs before, but not after, dual-anonymization was adopted.