We know that women students and staff remain underrepresented in Higher Education STEM disciplines. Even in subjects where equivalent numbers of men and women participate, however, many women are still disadvantaged by everyday sexism. Our recent research found that women who study STEM subjects at undergraduate level in England were up to twice as likely as non-STEM students to have experienced sexism. The main perpetrators of this sexism were not university staff, however, but were men STEM degree students.

  • @sir_reginald
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    710 months ago

    I’ve seen people being homophobic to straight but feminine men.

    Anyway, OP meant that homophobia, just like sexism, seems to be more present in STEM.