I wonder how many ladies here are in a STEM field. STEM has been coming up a lot and I'm curious. How were your experiences in said field? Post in the comments.
Submitted June 16, 2020, 1:17 p.m. by LadyE123Which STEM field if any?
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Technology: it's so annoying dealing with men. Their egos need to be centered and stroked at all times while they feel fine to attack my ego. I attack back depending on the hierarchy. They talk over me, repeat exactly what I just said acting as if I didn't say anything. They think I can't be right even when I am, goddess forbid I actually do make a mistake. Right now I have a great boss who supports me and backs me up.
Also in tech. This is exactly it.
I've been THE SME in the room and I've had people "correct" me (AKA opening by disagreeing with me but restating my point).
I've had people go way out of their way for "revenge" because I corrected them or said their idea was stupid.
I've wondered if I have communication issues, so I started recording conversations. I don't. People just don't listen when I talk, and they decide to hear whatever they want to hear.
Wooooow, this is EXACTLY how it was for me too when I was in STEM. Not to mention all the manslaining. I'm in nursing now and it's not better, I have men in unrelated fields tell me how things should be done all the time, because nUrSiNg IsNt HaRd.
I feel like being in STEM really pinkpills you since it has the most entitled/lookist/ugly/etc men.
I'm studying science at uni. ~80% of my classmates are women, despite there being a more or less even distribution of male and female science professors. the vast majority of these women will enter the medical field. men are basically dropping out of health/natural sciences because of the droves of women entering, despite these careers being (usually) high-paying, respectable, and rewarding. you don't see the concept of gender pollution being so obvious in other majors/fields, I'm sure of it. because there are so many women, the men are kind of emasculated so there isn't any kind of friction between us at all.
Men are emasculated so easily. Their manhood is so precarious to them which is a reason they are so controlling and hateful towards women. It's so pathetic.
I laugh everytime I hear that men are the rational sex. men avoid large numbers of women at all costs. They create pathologies around certain behaviors/careers/hobbies once women start to show up, even when these behaviors are a net positive in their lives. Even simple things like doing homework and good hygiene are seen as feminine. men would rather drop out of highschool and never shower if it meant they got to keep their precious masculinity in tact, because they're TERRIFIED of what other men think. people seriously need to start studying male relationships because these types of patterns are abnormal and can be detrimental when taken too far.
It's lifefuel that men think school is for women. Yeah buddy... PLEASE stay in a low paying job.
How many moids vote on these poles curious about the results? I often wonder this when I see polls on feminist subreddits. Men don't have to worry about the same, hardly any woman gives enough of a fuck to go through their shitholes, much less participate and larp as a monoX.
It was a thought I had too. They're OBSESSED with women. For us they are just a huge threat, nuisance, and always in the way.
I am studying computer science. My experience with the students is positive, but I only have contact with to people one woman and one man.
However the professors are a little bit sexist.
Trades. I deal with tradesmen all day which is how I ended up here.
I'm thinking about studying Computer Science at uni, a bachelor's degree would open many doors towards high paying jobs. I like the field too.
Do ittttttttttt
So many tech bros get a computer science major just so they can increase their chances of being hired by specific companies. Like 30% of those moids don't even like to code.
It's a lot easier to get a customer-facing job or managerial role at a tech company if you have a computer science degree because tech bros exult technical education above all else, even if it's not relevant to the specific role you want.
Do 👏it 👏
I feel like CS has the best ROI of all degrees right now. Four years and you can make 100k+ starting in the US.
Edit: Also, learning to code is now a staple of every single STEM degree and even non-STEM degrees need to know some code (especially when people are trying to archive or database print sources). It’s SO useful and I’m stuck playing catch up rn.
I'm a geneticist. It's been a mixed bag, there's a lot of performative wokeness and things get mansplained to me a lot, but it's just made me feistier.
I am in S, college was fine no one really bothered me. During intenrships and job search their preference for males is obvious though, even though all the male interns were braindead and I ended up being assigned as their supervisor because they can't do even basic things right. Fucking up constantly doesn't affect their ridiculous ego at all, whereas the female interns would be terrified of making a mistake because of how it make them look since they are female and it will be blamed on them being female.
Science - I'm in a physics PhD program, but my research is an interdisciplinary STEM field at the intersection of astronomy, physics, geology, chemistry, and optics. I'm extremely fortunate that my advisor is a woman, too.
I did my undergrad at a women's college. During my final year, a former student who had transitioned to male (and was now nearly 30 years old) re-enrolled. It was INSANE to me watching the faculty and other students fawn over this man's tiniest accomplishments. At the end of the year, we had a conference-like research showcase where everyone presented their final projects. I had a proper scientific poster describing my project's background, experimental design, results, and a short discussion. He literally drew an artistic sketch of the campus telescope and told stories about doing public outreach. Guess who won the department award for best research presentation? Not me!
I really got the full misogyny experience when I went for my MS. I worked for 2 white men with stay-at-home wives (one wife has a PhD in our STEM field!) and children. They worked me to the bone on projects that had nothing to do with my thesis, but also simultaneously berated me for not making progress on my thesis. They refused to let me be first author on the paper I wrote about my thesis, and gave first authorship the male post-doc who joined the project literally one week earlier (I was bumped to 4th in the 10 person author list). When I filed a formal ethics complaint with the journal, they withdrew the paper, had the post-doc completely re-reduce and analyze my data, and re-submitted the paper without my name on it. They stole the female post-doc's 20% discretionary research time for their personal projects, and threatened her immigration status when she pushed back. They gave very, very easy projects to male students and extraordinarily difficult ones to females. When one of the female MS students quit the lab (and brought a witness with her), the more explosive co-I smashed his own coffee mug on the ground and said "this is like my WIFE brought her NEW BOYFRIEND to tell me that she was DIVORCING ME!"
I guess it could have been worse. The same female postdoc who was/is being exploited complained that her PhD advisor tried to rape her.
I categorically no longer trust men with stay-at-home wives. They all believe that a woman's purpose is to serve them and cater to their every desire. They don't even differentiate between those desires, as the tantrum-throwing man demonstrated.