gender equity – Adventures in Oceanography and Teaching

Currently reading Sund (2015) on “Just an illusion of equality? The gender diversity paradox in Norway”

mglessmer — Mon, 12 May 2025 08:22:37 +0000

Having lived in Norway for 3 years during my postdoc, and now in Sweden for the last 3.5 years, I am often frustrated how many people misunderstand the consistently high rankings in international comparisons of gender equality as actual gender equality. Yeah, maybe it is worse in most other places, but based on my personal […]

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Currently reading Månefjord et al. (2025) on “Mind the Gender Gap: Implicit bias in STEM education”

mglessmer — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 11:03:32 +0000

Beautiful day to read about the gender gap at LTH! Or at least about the implicit biases found in the environment I work in every day, and where I try to work for equitable learning opportunities. In a nutshell, it is as bad here as it is everywhere else… The study by Månefjord et al. […]

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Currently reading “How well-intentioned white male physicists maintain ignorance of inequity and justify inaction” by Dancy & Hodari (2022)

mglessmer — Tue, 16 May 2023 09:35:01 +0000

This article has repeatedly been making waves in my circles over the last couple of months: “How well-intentioned white male physicists maintain ignorance of inequity and justify inaction” by Dancy & Hodari (2022). My take-away in a nutshell: Ignorance is bliss. It’s totally worth a read! It sounds obvious, and there is a lot of research […]

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Reducing bias and discrimination in teaching: an annotated, incomplete — WORK IN PROGRESS! — list of references

mglessmer — Thu, 02 Jun 2022 06:43:33 +0000

Already at the time of posting, I have added to my to-read list for an updated version of this post. Please let me know of any additional literature I should include, and of any other comments you might have! As it says in the title, this work is incomplete and in progress! “The rights perspective, […]

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Thinking about decolonising the curriculum (inspired by Dessent et al., 2022)

mglessmer — Fri, 14 Jan 2022 06:47:23 +0000

[Edit 5.9.2022: I just read “Decolonization is not a metaphor” by Tuck & Yang (2012) and I am very much using decolonization as a metaphor in the blog post below. That does not mean that my thoughts are bad or not important — I think there is still a lot of good stuff in them! — […]

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Building gender equity in the academy (Laursen & Austin, 2020)

mglessmer — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 15:39:13 +0000

After being “invited” to do some service work because someone noticed “that there was nobody on the committee without a beard” (gee, thanks for making me feel like you appreciate my qualifications!), and then the next day feeling all kinds of stereotype threats triggered in a video call where I noticed I was the only […]

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