{"id":14232,"date":"2015-02-21T13:40:07","date_gmt":"2015-02-21T13:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/profeminist-women-of-color-working-in-stem-fields\/"},"modified":"2018-12-05T18:10:06","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T01:10:06","slug":"profeminist-women-of-color-working-in-stem-fields","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/profeminist-women-of-color-working-in-stem-fields\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-14232 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/profeminist-women-of-color-working-in-stem-fields\/attachment\/14233\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_njyd9gSPAk1s9rx9zo1_1280-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/profeminist.tumblr.com\/post\/111351100857\/women-of-color-working-in-stem-fields-are\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">profeminist<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bitchmagazine.org\/post\/women-of-color-working-in-stem-fields-are-frequently-mistaken-for-janitors\"><b>Women of Color Working in STEM Fields Are Frequently Mistaken for Janitors\u00a0<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Almost half of Black and Latina women working as scientists have been mistaken for a janitor or administrator their offices, reveals a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toolsforchangeinstem.org\/double-jeopardy-report-viewer\/\">new report<\/a> on the experiences of women of color working in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields. <\/b><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;As one Latina statistician told researchers, \u201cI always amuse my friends with my janitor stories, but it has happened not only at weird hours.\u201d She calmly informed someone that she had the key to the office, not the janitor\u2019s closet.<\/p>\n<p><b>That detail is part of <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.toolsforchangeinstem.org\/double-jeopardy-report-viewer\/\"><b>\u201cDouble Jeopardy: Gender Bias Against Women of Color in Science,<\/b>\u201d<\/a> the new report by the Center for WorkLife Law at the University of California that surveyed 500 female scientists and conducted in-depth interviews with 60 more. It provides a damning look at how gender and racial bias impacts women\u2019s mental health and careers.<\/p>\n<p>The conventional wisdom is that women don\u2019t work in the sciences at the same rate as men because of a lack of early encouragement for girls to pursue STEM careers and because they\u2019re more likely to leave careers to have kids. But the interviews show that those explanations leave out the hostile and discouraging environment that many women face in male-dominated classrooms, offices, and labs. <b>Of the 60 scientists interviewed in the report, 100 percent reported that they had experienced gender discrimination during their careers. More than 75 percent of the African-American women scientists surveyed reported having to prove their intelligence over and over again. They feel they can\u2019t afford to make a single mistake.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Read the full piece <a href=\"http:\/\/bitchmagazine.org\/post\/women-of-color-working-in-stem-fields-are-frequently-mistaken-for-janitors\">here<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Photo caption:\u00a0<\/b>Teenage scientist Alexa Dantzler works in a chemisty lab at Emory University. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/intelfreepress\/10141713806\">Photo by Isabelle Saldana.<\/a><\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/66.media.tumblr.com\/8e7cc14815111ed49b74a9cb97e2a734\/tumblr_inline_njyd6dgyiE1rict0a.gif\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>profeminist: Women of Color Working in STEM Fields Are Frequently Mistaken for Janitors\u00a0 Almost half of Black and Latina women working as scientists have been mistaken for a janitor or administrator their offices, reveals a new report on the experiences of women of color working in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields. &ldquo;As one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-3Hy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14234,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14232\/revisions\/14234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}