friday the 24th of may 2019
hi! i have a week of break now yay and i’ll be less active here sorry
but here’s a pic that i took a month ago when i was studying for chemistry while we were in usa for a road trip!!
I’m gonna depress the hell out of all of you. ready? ok go
so, that “stop devaluing feminized work post”
nice idea and all
but the thing is, as soon as a decent number of women enter any field, it becomes “feminized,” and it becomes devalued.
as women enter a field in greater number, people become less willing to pay for it, the respect for it drops, and it’s seen as less of a big deal. it’s not about the job- it’s about the number of women in the job.
observe what happened with biology. it’s STEM, sure, but anyone in a male-dominated science will sneer at the idea of it being ‘for real,’ nevermind that everyone sure took it more seriously when it was a male dominated field. so has happened with scores of other areas; nursing comes to mind
so the thing is, it’s not the work or the job that has to be uplifted and seen as more respectable. it will never work out, until people start seeing women as respectable
but there’s a doozy and who the fuck knows if it’s ever happening in my life time
ESO’s La Silla Observatory over the night sky
Image credit: ESO
could u imagine if ppl talked about catholicism the same way they talked about like… indigenous ppl’s religions….
Small and angry.PhD student. Mathematics. Slow person. Side blog, follow with @talrg.
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