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WeedRamen48 karma

If you had to choose one, what would you say is the number 1 challenge at the moment that limits women's involvement and profile in science?

WeedRamen19 karma

Again, I don't know much about Norway. Just saying there's a lot more nuance to this than just saying ' Norway made a huge push towards equality'

WeedRamen2 karma

The parent comment here literally just said they feel threatened there might not be enough male role models in social media accounts (which I believe to be untrue). I know you're not that poster, but the fact of the matter is, role models are important to everyone and ones that share a background with you do a have significant encouraging effect.

RE: Norway - don't be misled, just because they made a huge push for it doesn't mean they did it correctly (I don't know much about norway's situation). For example, look at Russia, typically seen as less 'progressive' yet women enter tech and science in much greater numbers there than most other countries because the soviets heavily encouraged women into science as it was national priority which had a knock on effect to this day even though the USSR is dissolved.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39579321

WeedRamen-1 karma

Do you have any links to such accounts? Again, I've never personally come across it, and I imagine it to be quite rare for a university or science department to only have one social media account that only talks about women in general and nothing more.

My personal experience is that of a brown asian male in the UK doing his PhD who has studied at three separate universities and I personally never felt there was no male representation in the university's social media accounts.