Feds Spend $548,459 Studying Male Students’ ‘Microaggressions’ Towards Women

Submitted by Mastodon on Thu, 2016-04-07 23:46

Article here. Excerpt:

'The National Science Foundation is spending over $500,000 to videotape male engineering students while they work in labs to see if they are causing women to experience “microaggressions.”

The University of Michigan received the funding for a three-year project that is studying whether male college students ignore their fellow female classmates’ work.

“Because engineering is cast as a masculine field, women engineering students can experience subtle yet pervasive stereotypic messages in their learning environments that can negatively influence their experiences,” according to the grant for the study. “This early stage research project will identify specific behavioral manifestations of gender stereotypes—microaggressions—and their cumulative effect on learning, performance, and persistence in introductory engineering course teamwork.”

“Such microaggressions may cause the climate of the team to become less welcoming to women,” the researchers warn. “The proposed research unites two areas of strong research interest (social science research on gender stereotypes and engineering education on teamwork and climate) to advance understanding of women’s underrepresentation in engineering as compared to men.”'

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There's a sense of accomplishment that comes with doing something hard--but for women, apparently, everything must be a bed of roses or they can't function. The smallest microaggression stops them in their tracks.

What will these women do on the battlefield?

Of course, many colleges expect men to take women's studies classes--which could be described as one long verbal macroagression against men. I guess men are supposed to be tough and take it. Women, on the other hand, well, they're delicate flowers.

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Submitted by el cid on Fri, 2016-04-08 13:16