On the list of items that anti-feminists and their allies think are done deals in society. Funny how often they are wrong.
A majority of millennial men failed to see women as equals, according to the study, which looked at how college biology students viewed their classmates’ intelligence and achievements, the Harvard Business Review reported.
Among the findings:
- In every biology class surveyed, a man was seen as the most celebrated student, even in instances where women earned significantly better grades.
- Men were also found to overestimate the intelligence of their male classmates over that of female ones.
- Men continued exaggerating their assessments of the male peers, despite unequivocal evidence that their female peers were performing better.
- Women, conversely, weren’t found to display a bias: Their assessments of fellow classmates tended to be spot-on.
The National Institutes of Health researchers pointed out that female STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) majors drop out at significantly higher rates than their male counterparts.
“The reasons for this difference are complex, and one possible contributing factor is the social environment women experience in the classroom,” they wrote.
Still, scores of men are under the impression that they’ve become the target of reverse sexism. Conservative columnist John Hawkins ranted in Town Hall last year:
“Men have it rougher in America than most people realize. In part, that’s because they’re one of the few groups (along with white people, conservatives, and Christians) it’s cool to crap on at every opportunity. In case you haven’t noticed, there’s a nonstop assault on masculinity in America.”
But research has confirmed the reality of gender bias against women. A staggering 90 percent of women reported experiencing gender harassment in the workplace, a 2010 University of Michigan study found. The results suggest that such harassment had the purpose of driving women out of jobs and not the generally assumed motivation of trying to draw women into relationships.
“One could argue that, in these instances, ‘sexual harassment is used both to police and discipline the gender outlaw: the woman who dares to do a man’s job is made to pay,’” the researchers wrote, quoting an article by Katherine M. Franke, an associate professor of law at the University of Arizona College of Law.
As for millennial men specifically, they have been less accepting of female leaders than their older male counterparts, according to a 2014 survey of more than 2,000 adults residing in the United States, the Harvard Business Review reports.
Half of Millenial men said their careers would take priority over their partners’.
Three-fourths of women, on the other hand, said their careers would be at least as important as their husbands’.
-Found on Tumblr:McDyke
13 comments
February 13, 2017 at 6:17 am
robert browning
In ter rest ting, but not surprising that the corporate media and the ruling elite have perpetuated and accelerated the divisiveness that is so useful in perpetuating the status quo and patriarchy.
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February 13, 2017 at 8:27 am
tildeb
I don’t like it when people deflect their own ongoing and personal contribution to maintaining patriarchy by shifting blame to fuzzy groups like ‘the ruling elites’ or ‘corporate media’. I think whatever these groups might actually be are just as often a reflection of and not a hidden cabal of the society from which they emerge. This transferring tactic so commonly given voice by otherwise earnest and fair-minded people, tends to help maintain the status quo by shifting responsibility to some shadowy element rather than face facts that there is widespread and personal patriarchy in our own daily lives desperately in need of daily and personal redress.
I sincerely hope someone like Godless Cranium will take a look at the stark differences in RATES that indicate systemic gender bias and finally grasp that equality law does not a patriarchy-less society make.
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February 13, 2017 at 9:03 am
robert browning
Well T deb I am almost ashamed. But still you might deflect your on going and personal disdain, in whatever ways available, onto the two major (fuzzy) groups that shape society’s attitudes: the economic system we try to survive within and the corporate media.
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February 13, 2017 at 9:12 am
Bernie Orbust
Who ever said we live in an egalitarian society? We don’t even live in a democracy.
As an egalitarian, my opinion is that we live in a barbarian society with a racist barbarian global economy that has remained the same despite different geopolitical and macroeconomic ideologies over the past few centuries.
For example, from overt to covert colonialism. Whatever they call it: people of color end up servants of people in white rich nations. Of course, it’s only the oligarchs who really profit from this tyranny and exploitation.
People all over the world would be better off if undeveloped countries were developed and everyone had rising living standards on an even keel – the more human development the more wealth is generated. It can be done responsibly with regulations. The economy can evolve into cyberspace which has infinite real estate and ultra-low resource consumption. Eventually machines do most of the work. People live in permanent retirement with a comfortable basic income and public benefits rising along with responsible, sustainable GDP growth.
But can you imagine that after invading Africa 500 years ago and carrying away peaceful civilized egalitarians in chains, we are still tearing up their continent? (Why? Because it’s 2017! The future and all that!) Goddamn Hillary Clinton Ok’d child soldiers in South Sudan as Secretary of State for some form of kick back. Super Predator Goldwater segregation supporter. And yet she was portrayed as an antiracist champion! How absurd. (Gotta love enterprising public servants who take it upon themselves to auction off democratic representation to oligarchs foreign and domestic.)
Long story short: the people are responsible for their world. No one else. Not God. Not aliens. Just us. We would be utter fools to wait on some Messiah to come along and rescue us. (But interesting how we have this crazy instinct.) These upper-echelon looting barbarians will never care about the people. They are the product of animal instincts run amok. Peak-shift overdrive. They couldn’t stop themselves if they wanted to. That job is on us.
No revolution is required. Just some good old-fashioned democratic accountability. Shine a light on the corruption instead of looking the other way and enabling it. Because the entirety of civilization is going to collapse into the Anthropocene from this corruption – whether people got their heads stuck in the sand or not.
BTW, egalitarianism is a personal philosophy. Not something solicited or imposed. Egalitarians find clever nonviolent solutions to society’s problems. Egalitarians have been democratic for 200,000 years. No patriarchy. No matriarchy. Just freedom from primitive bullshit.
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February 13, 2017 at 6:08 pm
robert browning
Bernie I appreciate your comments (actually a damn good essay) but with this system, wordpress, simply hitting ‘like’ requires remembering a password etc.
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February 14, 2017 at 12:02 am
roughseasinthemed
I so like when the men (tildeb excepted) totally ignore the fact that this was a post about overt sexism, and er, women.
Please men, can we discuss sexual discrimination as well as corporate media, ruling elites, egalitarianism and have-a-go at Clinton?
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February 14, 2017 at 9:48 am
The Arbourist
@RSitM
I see you there ‘host’ trying to subvert the men-folk.
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February 14, 2017 at 9:52 am
The Arbourist
@tildeb
I dunno tildeb, alternative facts that support ideas like systemic features of society that negatively (mysteriously) affect women might be a bit much to ask.
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February 14, 2017 at 10:02 am
The Arbourist
@BernieOrBust
Well that would align with the fact that most people who I see espousing egalitarianism are quite liberal in nature. Unfortunately, this usually coincides with the belief that the situation is fine, or that people just need to make better choices and life will be great. Most egalitarians seem to be capitalist boot-licking shit lords that seem to care only for their small segment of society and their commitment to the welfare the other classes is nebulous, often at best (see libertarianism) .
Where are these shining examples of egalitarian society? I don’t see any past our gathering/hunting phase. I do see societies that are more equal, and thus do better (see the Spirit Level), but I would not classify them as egalitarian.
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February 14, 2017 at 10:16 am
tildeb
Apparently an insurmountable task, Arb.
In fact, pointing out these systemic problems through these disparate rates that reveal bias and discrimination is equivalent to promoting the very inequalities and biases these rates reveal!
How slick a rationalization is that?
Quick… best return to the status quo and everyone just shut up.
There. See? No problem.
“Badges? We don’t need no stinkin’ badges.” Everything’s already equal, you see.
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February 14, 2017 at 11:54 am
roughseasinthemed
Wouldn’t dare. The men-folk know much better than I do. Especially when it comes to *my* body. I so loved the skit about the womenz standing round a female president signing about what to do with men’s bodies. Can you imagine it? Unreal. Yet, the norm for women. Very. Bad. News. 👿
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February 14, 2017 at 7:28 pm
bleatmop
@sardeth
LMAO. Well said. There is a big difference between those who want an egalitarian society and those who just think it would be great but don’t want their ability to exploit people under capitalism to be disrupted. The worst are the Billionaire Egalitarians who don’t seem to realize that they only got their billions by exploiting the working and poor classes of society.
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February 21, 2017 at 7:06 pm
lovetruthcourage
Bernie, Africans are, and traditionally have been, just as patriarchal as Europeans and Asians. It is nice that you want to romanticize Africans, but it is patronizing, and does not hold them accountable for the fact that they were FAR from egalitarian long before the white man ever got there. You do realize the Africans brutally enslaved each other 1000s of years before the white man ever showed up, right? Evil white people didn’t invent slavery. It had been around worldwide since before written history. In fact, Africa still has countries like Mali where there are currently between hundreds of thousands and millions of slaves — Africans held as property by other Africans. This all started long before the arrival of Arabs in the Middle Ages and then the French in the late 1800s. Might want to crack a book or get a passport.
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