Women's Rights & Issues
Related: About this forumThe Matilda Effect
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matilda_effectSwiss researchers have indicated that mass media ask male scientists more often to contribute on shows than they do their female fellow scientists.[12]
According to one U.S. study, "although overt gender discrimination generally continues to decline in American society," "women continue to be disadvantaged with respect to the receipt of scientific awards and prizes, particularly for research."[13]
niyad
(119,941 posts)Dr. Dale Spender wrote "Women of Ideas and What Men Have Done To Them" years ago, talking about this, and worse, simply burying their ideas and knowledge. One cannot help but wonder where the world would be now without patriarchy.
ancianita
(38,580 posts)It feeds into the groomed belief that they really are essentially better than the other half that holds up the sky. Not all men, but a majority. Or there wouldn't be GENERATIONS of Amy Coney Barretts now in government.
Where the world would be -- without males choosing to see difference as a deficit, without males presuming any privilege to 'name' themselves superior (economically, socially, culturally, spiritually, legally) by use of predatory force -- is Nature.
I read Dale Spender's books back in the late 70's. Kept her books front and center in the feminist section of my library. Being a student of linguistics, I particularly like her Man Made Language. As a teacher of h.s. and college English, I made it a point to distill her major ideas about language used to dominate, and how writing and publishing equalize women in the world of ideas.
It was through Spender that I learned of how Matilda Jocelyn Gage was the statistical, researcher that powered Elizabeth Cady Stanton's First Wave of American Feminism. I'll never forget how she rearranged my brain cells away from the male HIStorian mansplaining of women's history.
Later, in the mid-80's, I read Marilyn French's three-volume World History of Women, From Eve to Dawn, now four volumes.
niyad
(119,941 posts)books, along with Barbara G. Walker's "Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets", and her "Woman's Dictionary of Symbols and Sacred Objects". And, of course, Mary Daly's "Wickedary". It used to bemuse/amuse me at how upset some men would get when one used gender-neutral, non-patriarchal language. It still does.
Once one is aware of how language is used by the patriarchy, and how deeply entrenched that programming is, one cannot NOT hear it everywhere.
I have read the first two of Marilyn French's history (herstory). The second two are on order.
Once again, thank you so very much.