"The heart of every anti-DEIA argument is that for every job, there is one person more qualified than anyone else... And it is DEIA policies which prevent that one person—unerringly a white man—from achieving their own personal manifest destiny."
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/01/trump-dei-emails-rubio-federal-employees-narc-snitch.html
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Zuckerberg exhibits "fragile masculinity," which means clinging to notions of rigid masculinity when feeling insecure and pressured to “man up."
https://theconversation.com/mark-zuckerberg-thinks-workplaces-need-to-man-up-heres-why-thats-bad-for-all-employees-no-matter-their-gender-247539
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In the FAIR framework, all people:
https://hbr.org/2025/01/what-comes-after-dei
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Southeast states (GA, NC, AR, SC) lost Republican women in state legislature seats. Entrenched gender roles is one reason. Another: unlike Dems, R's have "rejected any attempts at targeted support, recruitment, training and funding of women candidates."
https://www.propublica.org/article/republican-women-state-legislature-election-losses-south-carolina
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Studies (N=3,000) find men and women withheld contributions more in uncivil groups than civil ones. But women silenced more than men only when their group was uncivil. In civil groups, women reported speaking up just as much as men.
https://hbr.org/2025/01/research-incivility-at-work-silences-everyone-but-especially-women
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Early in the author's career, she was advised to wear skirts or dresses to important meetings to be taken seriously & fit the mold of a woman leader. Unfortunately it's not that simple. We must change our biases & stereotypes and stop trying to "fix" women. https://www.fastcompany.com/91256875/why-we-urgently-need-to-dismantle-the-leadership-double-standard
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When you are reading a book by an absolute icon--Brooke Shields--and see your own research cited!! Yes, women face ageism at every age including middle-age. Her book "Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed To Get Old" shows how middle age for women is hopeful, freeing, and productive.
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The American spirit "loves freedom and equality, abhors tyranny, values minding your own business and hates, above all, to be told what to do. This will haunt Trump soon enough." @moiradonegan
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/20/trump-american-spirit
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Anna Laymon, president of the Women's Suffrage National Monument Foundation, was told over & over "there is no space on the Mall for women." After years of advocacy, Biden just signed legislation allowing monument to be built on the National Mall.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/20/arts/womens-suffrage-national-monument.html
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A type of office housework is helping others with their work. As this woman engineer notes, her male colleagues avoided helping others by being "outright rude or dismissive to those asking for assistance, deterring people from reaching out again."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/woman-worked-tech-industry-15-214617926.html
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“If a return to masculine energy means all these bros paying fealty to the new bully on the block, that gives us new insight into what masculinity really means.”
-Dr. Juliet Williams
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/health-wellness/2025/01/17/mark-zuckerberg-meta-workforce-masculine-energy/77755286007/
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The war on "woke" is actually a war on workers. Like Musk before him, Zuckerberg appears to resent the people who work for him and make him rich. @AmandaMarcotte https://www.salon.com/2025/01/17/the-tech-billionaire-on-woke-is-really-targeting-workers/
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I spoke about lookism bias against women at work with Dahlia Stroud for the Stressed But Well Dressed Podcast. Lookism is traditionally defined as a beauty bias, where attractive people have advantages that unattractive people do not. However, for women, it is a general appearance bias. In our research, no matter what the women looked like, they were criticized or actively discriminated against. Listen here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7cBBe7gGo39AlGWyyJbIyS?si=Il2sOAM-QhG5AwxyJ-YThg&nd=1&dlsi=f30b0a71c2ff4027
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While Biden affirming the Equal Rights Amendment is good, the last minute timing is a problem. Making the statement even a few weeks earlier would have allowed the Biden administration more time to legally force the archivist to publish it.
https://www.npr.org/2025/01/17/nx-s1-5264378/biden-era-national-archivist-constitution
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Men are excused for loving adventure, women are not. They are burdened with guilt for time away from family, careers, responsibilities & shamed if they head out solo. There's a lack of social support/education for women to wilderness adventure on their own. https://thetrek.co/wild-and-unapologetic-women-breaking-the-solo-adventuring-rules/
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Zuck explained that "masculine energy" meant celebrating aggression at work. This is not a trait women are freely permitted to express in offices. While men are praised for showing dominance and aggression at work, women are penalized for it.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mark-zuckerberg-masculine-energy_l_6785d4d0e4b036b0243c0917
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About those tech bro billionaires: "while you may be able to buy power, it’s impossible to buy a good personality."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/16/i-knew-one-day-id-have-to-watch-powerful-men-burn-the-world-down-i-just-didnt-expect-them-to-be-such-losers
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When a Michigan high school cheerleader wore her uniform to school on a Friday (a tradition), she was told to wear pants because showing her legs is a "distraction to the boys." The uniforms were deemed ok for games but not for school.
https://www.scarymommy.com/parenting/cheerleader-uniform-dress-code
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When @WIRED sent reporters across the world to cover the technology landscape, the holders of $$$ were men. From Bill Gates, to crypto investors & First Buddy Musk in Trump's inner circle, to solar bros: it's men men men. Men are 87% of billionaires.
https://www.wired.com/story/editor-letter-rich-men-rule-the-world/
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Study of 257 young children finds when they were shown pictures of adults and asked who knows more about science & from whom they would want to learn, they overwhelmingly chose the adult who had their same gender.
https://www.uoflnews.com/section/science-and-tech/uofl-research-shows-girls-shifting-views-on-women-in-science/
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