#gender gap

[alpaca-clouds]

Updating the stuff for the German election. As noted: The Left Wing party is the strongest party among the youngest voters. However, our Nazis from the AfD are the second strongest. And looking into the exit polls by gender, it shows this:

Basically, the left wing party is so strong because of young women, but the AfD Nazis are so strong because of the young men.

And thinking of some of the studies I have read on BlueSky I cannot help but think about how young men do not want to go to university because that is a "girl thing". Just as those studies also found that it is not that "universities make you left wing", but rather "left wing people are more likely to go to university".

And of course we kinda know why this is. Because young boys spend too much time listening to those Joe Rogans, and Andrew Tates and what not. But I really kinda wonder how the fuck one can reach those kids.

I mean, we know also that those right wing and toxic masculinity shit stuff makes men unhappy. Because they are being told they need to reach this one ideal, that right now is pretty much impossible for them to reach.

Yeah, I don't know. This specifically sucks, man.

[liberalsarecool]

🌊🗳💙♀️🫶🏻🔥🗽🇺🇸

[reality-detective]

MASSIVE PSYOP: Weaponizing fear in Women to Repel cohesive relationships with men... (Soft depop)

Its all fun and games until we all die alone..

In my careful observations, it seems clear that women have a noticeable vulnerability in their minds that men don’t typically have. This can be linked to evolutionary needs, which play a role in how humans reproduce within our complex social structures. It makes sense—and here's where it gets even more interesting—that this perceived weakness helps women engage with potential partners without always seeing through men’s hidden intentions, like simply asking for a phone number. This delicate balance highlights the complexity of human relationships and how reproduction works.

Moreover, historical and religious texts, like the Bible, describe women as supportive partners to men, emphasizing their role in nurturing and cooperation. This background fits well with my conclusion that these built-in psychological traits in women are essential to maintaining and continuing humanity within our complicated societies.

Thus, it becomes evident why women are targeted first when a society is being dismantled. Attacking this cornerstone disrupts the family unit, creating chaos and weakening the social fabric critical to society's stability and continuity.

Disrupt this balance and watch society crumble. You Decide 🤔

[mindblowingscience]

A new study shows that female academics are significantly underrepresented in winning academic prizes and having awards named after them. Analysis of nearly 9,000 awardees and 346 scientific prizes and medals published in Nature Human Behaviour has found that men win eight prizes for every one won by a woman if the award is named after a man. These awards represent almost two-thirds of all scientific prizes. Female academics are, however, more likely to win awards that have been named after other notable female scientists, with 47% of those awards going to women and 53% to men. Dr. Katja Gehmlich, Associate Professor in the Institute of Cardiovascular Science at the University of Birmingham and joint lead author of the study, said, "The gender gap between awardees in scientific prizes is sadly a product of a long, systematic issue of poor representation of women in sciences. Despite decades of efforts to rebalance this issue, our study shows that women are still poorly recognized for their scientific contributions, and men are far more likely to win prizes and awards, in particular, if those awards are named after other men.

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[justinspoliticalcorner]

Jonathan Cohn at HuffPost:

Election Day is Tuesday. And while plenty of politicos and pundits are out there predicting what will happen, the reality is that … nobody knows. The polls are super close, nationally and in the swing states. Forecasting models see the race as a coin flip. But you can spot some clear storylines that say a lot about how the two presidential campaigns have unfolded so far, and that might even help explain the outcome after the fact. One of those storylines is the determination and enthusiasm of women who back Democrat Kamala Harris, including women who might be afraid to say so publicly because their husbands support Republican Donald Trump.

I first heard about this last week, in Michigan, while covering a campaign event for Democratic Senate candidate Elissa Slotkin. Slotkin said canvassers were reporting stops at houses with large Trump signs, where women would answer and ― when asked which candidate they were supporting ― would quietly point to a photo of Harris on the canvassers’ campaign literature. [...]

And though the movement appears to have started on its own and spread over social media, lately the underlying sentiment has been getting high-profile support from figures like former first lady Michelle Obama, who in a recent Harris campaign appearance said, “If you are a woman who lives in a household of men that don’t listen to you or value your opinion, just remember that your vote is a private matter.” Are there enough hidden votes to change who wins a state? Probably not. But the emotional fuel for it, the determination of so many women to elect Harris over Trump, absolutely could prove decisive. If that happens, it would be one of the more ironic twists in modern political history ― and one of the more fitting ones, too ― because a campaign pitting men against women is exactly the campaign Trump and his advisers wanted.

The Boys vs. Girls Election

It’s no secret that this year’s gender gap is shaping up to be the largest in memory, with polls showing men favoring Trump by double digits, and women favoring Harris by a similar margin. In many ways, that gap was preordained not because of who’s on the ballot, but what’s at stake ― the future of reproductive freedom, and one side that’s actively pushing to regress back toward restrictive gender roles and limited rights. But instead of trying to counter that, Trump has leaned in. On the eve of this summer’s Republican National Convention, even before President Joe Biden dropped his reelection bid and Harris became their party’s nominee, Trump campaign officials boasted about how they were hoping to create what Axios called a “boys vs. girls election,” with ”Donald Trump’s chest-beating macho appeals vs. Joe Biden’s softer, reproductive-rights-dominated, all-gender inclusivity.”

So powerful was this appeal, Trump’s campaign managers told The Atlantic’s Tim Alberta, that Trump would manage to peel off some of the Black and Hispanic men who would traditionally vote Democratic, enough to offset losses among women. “For every Karen we lose, we’re going to win a Jamal and an Enrique,” one Trump ally had previously told Alberta. The Trump campaign has unfolded just as his team promised ― which helps explain why, for example, Trump has spent the final weeks before the election appearing alongside former Fox News host Tucker Carlson (who recently suggested that the country needed Trump to be a “dad” who would deliver a “spanking”) while sidelining former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (who has been popular with independent female voters). And the strategy may very well work. Polls have shown Harris struggling to hit the margins among Black and (especially) Hispanic men that previous Democrats have.

But the Trump gambit depends on winning over more men faster than he alienates women. And that’s hardly a safe bet. In just the last few years, the gender gap has been increasing at a faster pace than before, as my colleague Lilli Petersen explained recently.

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The Backlash And Its Potential

How is this all shaking out?

Overall, according to a recent Politico analysis, women are accounting for 55% of the early vote across battleground states. And in Pennsylvania, a state that many strategists consider the most important for each candidate, data suggests that early voting includes a relatively high proportion of Democratic women who did not vote there in 2020. Early voting is a notoriously unreliable predictor of outcomes, for the simple reason that the data about who is voting doesn’t say that much about how they are voting, especially in an environment without solid baselines for comparison. Early voting did not become particularly widespread until 2020, in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic and with Trump advising his supporters not to vote by mail. (This year, he’s generally encouraged them to vote early if they can.) But women are a larger proportion of the population and, historically, they have voted at higher rates too. Last month, political scientist and Brookings senior fellow Elaine Kamarck ran the numbers on different scenarios to see what would happen if women came out to vote in the same proportion as in 2020, given the latest polling numbers available. She found Harris would win Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — enough to win the election.

Donald Trump got his wish of this election being fought on gender roles and reproductive freedom... but it won't turn out like how he wanted it to go.

Read the full story at HuffPost.

[forsythiajo]

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

[political-us]

[i-am-a-polpetta]

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[palestarlightpeanut]

E' la Danimarca il Paese più sicuro per le donne, seguita dalla Svizzera e dalla Svezia.

Nel 2024, i centri antiviolenza in Italia hanno registrato un incremento del 14% nel numero di donne che chiedono aiuto; nei primi dieci mesi dell'anno, 21.842 donne si sono rivolte a queste strutture.

L'Italia è posizionata al 34esimo posto nel Women, Peace and Security Index e al 79esimo nella classifica globale sul gender gap, con un incremento preoccupante dei femminicidi tra il 2023 e il 2024.

[spettriedemoni]

Otto marzo e le donne

Proviamo a fare un gioco: vi dico i titoli di 3 fiction della Rai, tutti biophic di grandi personaggi italiani.

Califano.

Mameli.

Margherita delle Stelle.

Vedete il problema?

A che serve la “Festa della Donna” se il problema sulla parità di genere è molto più complicato e ben lontano dall’essere risolto?

[forsythiajo]

Did you know gender bias exists on Wikipedia too? Luckily, there are editors working to fight it, including WikiProject Women in Red, of which I am a part!

In October 2014, only 15.53% of English Wikipedia's biographies were about women. By April 2016, that number had increased to only 16.14%.

Thanks to the efforts of WikiProject Women in Red (and a number of unaffiliated users, of course), that percentage as of today is 20.003%! Looking at it from a different perspective: from April 2016 to December 2024, the total number biographies increased by 34%, while women's biographies increased by 46.7%!

We still have a long way to go, but this is a big milestone for the community.

If you're interested in our work, or want to join the cause, check out the project page below! (Also we are absolutely trans inclusive, trans women are women <3)

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

By: Steve Stewart-Williams

Published: Mar 5, 2025

Do teachers exhibit gender bias when grading students’ work? If so, in which direction does the bias go? Are teachers more likely to favor boys or favor girls?

These are the questions explored in a fascinating 2020 paper by Camille Terrier, published in the Economics of Education Review. Terrier compared children’s marks on gender-blind national exams with non-blind marks given by their teachers. The findings revealed a persistent marking bias in favor of girls. Although the effect wasn’t huge, Terrier found persuasive evidence that the bias contributes to boys falling behind in school.

Below are some excerpts from the paper. You can read the whole thing here for free.

Background

Boys are increasingly falling behind girls at school. This disadvantage has important consequences: boys who fall behind are at risk of dropping out of school, not attending college or university, and/or being unemployed. In OECD countries, 66% of women entered a university program in 2009, versus 52% of men, and this gap is increasing. In Europe, 43% of women aged 30–34 completed tertiary education in 2015, compared to 34% of men in the same age range. Because this gap has increased by 4.4 percentage points in the last ten years, there is a growing interest in identifying its roots.

Method

I use a rich student-level dataset… that follows 4490 pupils from grade 6 until grade 11. To quantify teachers’ gender biases in math and French, I exploit an essential feature of the data: it contains both blind and non-blind scores. An external grader without knowledge of student’s characteristics provides schools with blind scores. These scores are presumably free of teachers’ biases. Teachers provide non-blind scores for in-class exams… This data allows me to study the effect of teachers’ gender biases on pupils’ progress, schools attended, and course choices.

Quantifying Teacher Bias

[D]espite the commonly held belief that girls are discriminated against, teacher biases favor girls… Figs. 1 and 2 display the distributions of blind and non-blind French scores at the beginning of grade 6… [G]irls’ average score is 0.434 points higher than boys when the score is blind and 0.460 when it is non-blind.

[ Figs. 1 & 2. Test scores for each sex are standardized such that 0 represents the average score. ]

[T]he story is different in mathematics. Figs. 3 and 4 show that boys outperform girls when grades are blind, but the opposite is true when teachers assess their own pupils: girls’ average score at the beginning of grade 6 is 0.147 points lower than boys when the score is blind, but it is 0.170 points higher when the score is non-blind.

[ Figs 3 & 4. Test scores for each sex are standardized such that 0 represents the average score. ]

Knock-On Effects of Teacher Bias

This favoritism, estimated as individual teacher effects, has long-term consequences: as measured by their national evaluations three years later, male students make less progress than their female counterparts… For two classes where the achievement gap between boys and girls would be identical in 6th grade, quasi-randomly assigning a teacher who is 1 SD more biased against boys to one of the classes decreases boys’ progress in that class relative to girls by 0.123 SD in math and by 0.106 SD in French. Over the four years of middle school, teachers’ gender bias against boys accounts for 6% of boys falling behind girls in math… Moving to other outcomes, I find that having a teacher who is one SD more biased in math increases girls’ probability of selecting a scientific track in high school by 3.6 percentage points compared to boys’. Teachers’ average bias in math reduces the gender gap in choosing scientific courses by 12.5%… If teachers’ biases are mainly driven by statistical discrimination, we might expect end-of-year grades to be less biased (and the variance to be smaller) because teachers acquire information about students during the year. On the other hand, if teachers’ biases are mainly taste based, bias should not change over time.1 In that case, end-of-year in-class grades should produce similar bias variance than first-semester grades. The mean and variance of the bias are very similar at the beginning of the year and at the end, suggesting that gender favoritism is mainly taste based.

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Abstract

I use a combination of blind and non-blind test scores to show that middle school teachers favor girls in their evaluations. This favoritism, estimated as individual teacher effects, has long-term consequences: as measured by their national evaluations three years later, male students make less progress than their female counterparts. On the other hand, girls who benefit from gender bias in math are more likely to select a science track in high school. Without teachers’ bias in favor of girls, the gender gap in choosing a science track would be 12.5% larger in favor of boys.

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That is, biased marking puts individuals on a science track who would otherwise not qualify, while removing individuals who otherwise would qualify. This is the same situation as Affirmative Action, which artificially altered the natural/unbiased class composition, and which was struck down as unconstitutional.

Some years ago, the very accurate point was made that mean intelligence between males and female is the same, so there's no reason to think girls are any less capable than boys.

Now that the education gender gap has inverted, a common excuse for doing nothing is that, "girls are just smarter than boys." That is, we've pivoted from "all disparities are discrimination" to "these disparities are not just normal but good, ackshully," and we're being gaslighted to pretend we forgot that mean intelligence is the same, even though we've known for years that sex discrimination by teachers is a real thing.

[ripped-up-newspaper]

I cannot say enough that this book (The Authority Gap by Mary Ann Sieghart) is one of the most brilliant and jaw dropping thesis’ I have ever read. Ms. Sieghart wastes no time getting into the nitty-gritty of it, even the introduction holds no punches. She’s concise, efficient, and incredibly intelligent, which show’s prominently in her book.

I can’t recommend it enough.

[raffaellopalandri]

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