Posted on 04/07/2015 5:38:47 AM PDT by outpostinmass2
Donna Riley, an engineering professor at Virginia Tech, visited the University Monday to discuss gender-based violence in science, technology, engineering and math fields. Riley discussed and analyzed the engineering, academic and broader U.S. cultures which work together to deny gender-based violence.
Riley said gender-based violence not only includes rape, but also stalking, intimate partner violence, harassment, non-consensual sexual contact, verbal abuse and misogynist hate crimes.
In the Survey of Academic Field Experiences published by science journal PLOS One in 2014, Riley said two-thirds of women surveyed reported being the victim of sexual harassment while researching in a scientific field, and 26 percent reported being sexually assaulted, usually by senior members of the research team.
Riley said men in the field experienced harassment and sexual assault as well, but chose to focus her talk on women.
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5% of Virginia Tech students are non-US. Enrollment is 31,000 to about 1,500 students are non-US and most of them are STEM. The number does not include first generation students.
“Talk” is far different from physically taking what you want. These guys can be easily twice the size of a woman
My daughter is a stem major at Virginia Tech. Your conclusion is not supported by direct observation
While there are jerks and predators in all fields, I’m more interested in the confusion of sexual harassment with the actions of those who are socially awkward or poorly socialized. The vast majority of STEM majors I’ve met are normal (although a lot of engineers I know have a lust for life), but I’ve met a lot who get very focused in their work precisely because they were uncomfortable around people. I can easily see someone with an agenda taking that behavior as some kind of harassment rather than the awkwardness it is.
For the most part in my 30 years in STEM fields I have yet to see a woman engineer that I find remotely attractive, yes I am sure there are exceptions.
What does your daughter think of professor Donna Riley?
Interesting.
Not really, bit its better than saying,”bookmark.”
She said “travelling professors in engineering are usually from the civil engineering department, because the rest are too busy”
She doesn’t know her
That means you remember a time before the inane acronym "STEM" was invented ...
That blurb needed a barf alert.
Puhleeze
I haven’t bothered to look - does this woman (womyn?) even have a STEM degree? She seems full of illogic, which would seem to contraindicate one.
Shame on them! As a woman who was a STEM major and has a degree in a STEM field, I didn't need anyone else to do my work for me. I was usually a straight-A student who carried her own weight on the team lab assignments.
Back to the OP - I have worked in the STEM area for 25 ± years and haven't experienced any "sexual harassment" in the workplace. Then again, I tend not to get offended, have a sense of humor and don't tend to make a federal case out of stupid behavior. Choosing to not play the victim, I try to solve matters on my own and if that doesn't work, I will consult others for help.
We use to call it engineering
She has a b.s in chemical engineering from Princeton. She has a masters and PhDs in engineering and social justice whatever that is. She taught at smith college a course in thermodynamics and social justice. Vtech made her a full professor this year.
>> a course in thermodynamics and social justice.
Good God, I hope that isn’t a single course. If it is, that’s the most Mickey Mouse thing I’ve heard in a long time.
>>Vtech made her a full professor this year.
Just damn. I will have to chase down my VA Tech friend and give him a hard time about this one.
The ones that made a habit out of it usually left the program.
The ones that staid become good friends. We were a pretty tight group at Iowa State for the size of the program.
It does not matter. This is the assault on American greatness. Time to attack STEM.
They've made it so any workplace meeting-up is way too risky. I will NOT mess with any woman at work.
I have worked in STEM for not quite that long. It does exist.
The guys running the lab do, in fact, grab you in the elevator. Just once. With the right response they do not do it a second time.
I have a friend who was asked to drop off her dissertation at her first reader's house. She did. In the reflection of the sliding glass door she saw him coming at her stark naked. Fast forward 10 years, she headed the committee from DC coming to review his laboratory.
When I was studying Physics, we called it science. When I was studying Engineering, we called it engineering. When I was, briefly, a high school teacher, we called it science and math. I worked as an engineer for at least 20 years before I ever heard of ‘stem’ as other than a botanical or glassware term ...
There are men out there that don’t deserve the title of men. I’m sorry that you were treated this way and that person should be fired. I do recall one engineer that was fired for stalking a young co-op. I just don’t see this systematic rape culture that is described in her lecture, especially in engineering. The men I know and work with are not predatory monsters. I am tired of hearing this slander. I have worked in laboratories, huge corporations and small ones. If this was a systemic problem I would have witnessed something or heard something. I would have seen rapist arrested. I hope that creep who grabbed you is out of a job.
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