More benefits of #OpenPeerReview:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1751157725001221

When they know their reports will be made public, referees make them longer, clearer, more informative, and more constructive in suggesting improvements. And btw, reports by women are better in these respects than reports by men.

#Gender #PeerReview #ScholComm

#newissue
Now online #TheReasoner's special issue about the inaugural meeting of the “Milan Logic and Philosophy of Science Network", held at Politecnico di #Milano in March 2025.

Part 1: #AI, #Robotics, and #Cognition
Part 2: #Epistemology, #Reasoning, and #Logic
Part 3: #Philosophy of the #PhysicalSciences, #Biology, and #Health.
Part 4: Science, Values, and Uncertainty.
Discussions: #gender, #mentalhealth and #publicengagement in academia

⬇️ https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/thereasoner/issue/view/2713?mtm_campaign=mastodon

@cultura @scienze

The GMB union has now gained over £1bn in compensation payments for gender-based wage discrimination in local councils & is not yet finished with the claims (another 10,000 look to be launched in 2026).

Its great news for the women gaining the compensation for under-payment & shows why unions (the collective organisation of labour) is necessary & also why our political class are not keen on supporting the revival of workers' right to organise.

#workers #unions #gender
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/dec/27/equal-pay-settlements-for-female-council-workers-pass-1bn

The GMB union has now gained over £1bn in compensation payments for gender-based wage discrimination in local councils & is not yet finished with the claims (another 10,000 look to be launched in 2026).

Its great news for the women gaining the compensation for under-payment & shows why unions (the collective organisation of labour) is necessary & also why our political class are not keen on supporting the revival of workers' right to organise.

#workers #unions #gender
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/dec/27/equal-pay-settlements-for-female-council-workers-pass-1bn

For my fellow Cassandras.

The author talks about anti-alarmism in the mainstream media and among liberals (failure to recognize an actual emergency in progress - e.g. refusing to see MAGA as a real threat) as driven by men's gender insecurity and need to distance themselves from behavior that is female coded.

tl;dr

Cassandras are more likely to:
-be women
-belong to a minoritized group in some meaningful way
-have spent considerable amounts of time among conservative populations
-be clear, critical thinkers who can connect the dots between different types of bad behavior

https://newrepublic.com/article/204254/survey-2024-election-cassandras-trump-2025

#USPOL #MAGA #gender #media

For my fellow Cassandras.

The author talks about anti-alarmism in the mainstream media and among liberals (failure to recognize an actual emergency in progress - e.g. refusing to see MAGA as a real threat) as driven by men's gender insecurity and need to distance themselves from behavior that is female coded.

tl;dr

Cassandras are more likely to:
-be women
-belong to a minoritized group in some meaningful way
-have spent considerable amounts of time among conservative populations
-be clear, critical thinkers who can connect the dots between different types of bad behavior

https://newrepublic.com/article/204254/survey-2024-election-cassandras-trump-2025

#USPOL #MAGA #gender #media

Current read: Cordelia Fine's follow-up to "Delusions of Gender," which pointed out all the neurosexism in brain research that led to faulty conclusions about differences in cis men's and cis women's brains.

This one is about the testosterone myth: that it creates notable, meaningful differences in behavior by sex.

It's so good. I love her so much.

#feminism #bookstodon #reading #books #science #hormones #sex #gender

Current read: Cordelia Fine's follow-up to "Delusions of Gender," which pointed out all the neurosexism in brain research that led to faulty conclusions about differences in cis men's and cis women's brains.

This one is about the testosterone myth: that it creates notable, meaningful differences in behavior by sex.

It's so good. I love her so much.

#feminism #bookstodon #reading #books #science #hormones #sex #gender

https://www.patreon.com/posts/men-tell-me-them-143339518

#feminism #patriarchy #sexism #sexist #masculinity #toxicmasculinity #identity #control #abuse #dv #donesticviolence #dominance #gender #men #women #liberation #feminist

https://www.patreon.com/posts/men-tell-me-them-143339518

#feminism #patriarchy #sexism #sexist #masculinity #toxicmasculinity #identity #control #abuse #dv #donesticviolence #dominance #gender #men #women #liberation #feminist

Update. "We conduct a comprehensive comparison between peer-review scores and citation-based metrics across various scientific fields [in Italy]…While both evaluation methods exhibit sex bias, peer review systematically penalizes women more severely than citation-based metrics."
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1751157725001245

#Gender #GenderBias #ScholComm

Average sexist sci fi writer: The women in my stories are one-dimensional #stereotypes functioning primarily as rewards for my male protagonists.

Heinlein and Stephenson: The women in MY stories are powerful, intelligent, interesting rewards for my male protagonists.

<"We are not the same" meme here>

#scifi #sff #writing #gender

Update. In the field of oil pollution research, "female authors accounted for about 32% of the total authors…were significantly underrepresented in most of the African countries [and in] the UK and Norway…Gender variation in oil pollution publications was discovered to be influenced by religion in Africa; Islam had the mean highest rank when compared with Christianity."
https://doi.org/10.4314/jasem.v29i11.22

#Gender #GenderBias #ScholComm

More benefits of #OpenPeerReview:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1751157725001221

When they know their reports will be made public, referees make them longer, clearer, more informative, and more constructive in suggesting improvements. And btw, reports by women are better in these respects than reports by men.

#Gender #PeerReview #ScholComm

#Masculinities and #Femininities are far beyond the ones portrayed by #cisgender #people. If you continue to #portray that these #gender forms belong only to cis-bodies, then you know nothing at all about even your own #self. #Stop #erasing #trans #identities and #trans #people.

Update. "In male-dominated fields, women have significantly broader research interests than men, while this gap diminishes and reverses in more gender-balanced fields. Although broader publication trajectories help women increase publication output, this strategy carries steeper citation penalties for women than for men. The results suggest that academic fields act as sites of inequality production, channeling women toward research patterns that boost immediate productivity while undermining long-term scholarly influence."
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/23780231251396273

#Gender #GenderBias #ScholComm