• eestileib@sh.itjust.works
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    Have you ever talked with a woman about her experience working in STEM academia?

    45 year old men making gross propositions is not at all unusual. And often those are the people deciding whether you have a professional future.

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      Have you ever talked with a woman about her experience working in STEM academia?

      I can’t say that I have and my comment was in no way meant to that it doesn’t happen to them.

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        That doesn’t apply when you’re a PhD student and your supervisor is the tenured department head. You can try blowing everything up to pursue a sexual harassment case but that’s gonna be the end of your PhD.