SEX DISCRIMINATION What us sex discrimination? It occurs when an individual is treated in a different way due to his/her sex.
TYPES OF SEX DISCRIMINATION
1. Direct discrimination It happens when, because his/her sex, someone treats and individual worse tan another of the opposite sex who is in a similar situation. Men must pay to enter into a nightclub, while women can go into it without charge 2. Indirect discrimination It happens when a company has a particular way of working that is applied to both sexes and is disadvantageous for individuals of a certain sex. Staff of a local finish at 5pm instead of 3pm: women employees with caring responsibilities are in disadvantage because they cannot collect their children from school. OTHER TYPES OF SEX DISCRIMINATION 3. Harassment It happens when an individual makes someone feel, humiliated, offended or degrades because of his/her sex. It also covers sexual comments or jokes, touching or assault, sending sexual emails or putting up pornographic photos. When an individual treats someone unfairly because he or she didn’t tolerate sexual harassment.
4. Victimisation It occurs when someone is treated badly because he or she has made (or has supported someone who has made) a complaint of sex discrimination. Why I want to talk about sexual discrimination in Science? Sexual and gender discrimination is occurring everywhere, but I prefer to focus on science, because I’m a girl and in the future I want to work as scientist. I’m very interested in showing people the problems that women have to bear. I want to focus on discrimination in workplaces which is a great problem among females who want to work as scientists.
Why it’s important to stop gender and sex discrimination?
1. Scientific research is more precise when gender is taken into account. 2. Women bring different points of view to research and scientific conversation. 3. More STEM professionals are required. Learn more about it in: https://www.elsevier.com/connect/3-reasons-gender-diversity-is-crucial-to-science The workplace gender discrimination I will focus my attention to three different occupations: biological scientist, because I’m very interested in this field.
Female biological scientists with all
degrees are the 48,24% of all the employees in this sector.
Female biological scientists with
bachelor’s degree are the 56,36% of all the employees in this sector.
Female biological scientists with
master’s degree are the 47,71% of all the employees in this sector.
Female biological scientists with
master’s degree are the 38,1% of all the employees in this sector.
We can suppose that females who
earned a master and a doctorate were less than males in 2010.
It would be a good supposition to
justify the reduction of employed The year 2010, the biological science maters earned by males were 4,485, while masters in the same field earned by females were 6,183.
How is it possible that this year the women earned more master degrees than men, but the number of female employers with masters were inferior to men?
Let’s try again with
doctoral masters. The year 2010, the biological science doctorates earned by males were 4,007 (it means that the 89,34% of males which earned a master, also earned a doctorate).
Masters in the same field
earned by females were only 3,564 (it means that only the 57,64% of females which earned a master, also earned a doctorate).
In this occasion, men
earned a little more doctoral degrees than women, but, even so, the number of female employers who earned a doctorate is too low. As you can see, this fact also happens in other fields of science 500 Women Scientists 500 Women Scientists is an organization which was started by four women and its mission is to make science open, inclusive and accessible. The goals that the organization is trying to achieve are: 1. Allow women to develop their full potential in science. 2. Increase the scientific literacy 3. Support equality in science 500 Women Science promote the significance of science in society, support the education and careers of all scientists and push for the divulgation of science and the engagement with the public. Now a days 20.000 women of STEM and supporters from more than 100 countries support 500 Women Scientists and they are trying to create an inclusive scientific community. Also, there are Local Pods where members meet and develop a support net and make plans based on the values of the organization. Search more information in https://500womenscientists.org/ WHAT CAN WE DO?
If you think about important and influential scientists you may
think about Newton, Einstein or Hawking, but what about women. Young girls need a mentor, some scientist women. In school teachers only mention male scientists: Tales, Pythagoras, Newton, Kepler, Copernicus, Galileo… Teachers must get to know female scientists to inspire girls. Also parents and classmates need to support those girls interested in science, instead of making things difficult.
