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I hope this article below gets widely noticed (I also need to find the
original in Nature). Two primary points--
* Barres said he has realized from personal experience that many men are
unconscious of the privileges that come with being male, which leaves them
unable to countenance talk of glass ceilings and discrimination.
This is a very difficult concept to express to others (especially to men
who honestly believe they don't discriminate against women). I have tried
to use the example of colleagues, or mentors and proteges, who discuss
their project animatedly and enthusiastically while on the way to the
restroom....
* Barres said the switch had given him access to conversations that would
have excluded him previously.
If one wants to know what majority institutions and governments think of
ethnic minorities (i.e., native and non-native or Hispano and non-Hispano)
ask an Anglo/Gussack /Pakeha trained in participant/observation who's been
in "both worlds".
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Male Scientist Writes of Life as Female Scientist
Biologist Who Underwent Sex Change Describes Biases Against Women
By Shankar Vedantam, Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, July 13, 2006; Page A10
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/12/AR2006071201883.html
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