Notices by Amy Diehl, Ph.D. (amydiehl@mstdn.social)

Republican women may think supporting right wing men will earn her their protection, affection & material support....but "it is a core belief of the right wing man that no woman, however compliant, has any claim on him that he must respect."
https://www.salon.com/2025/02/26/a-woman-is-like-a-child-maga-quickly-turns-its-sights-on-stripping-women-of-power/

"We can imagine a day when awards for women will no longer be necessary; that day will come when women are represented fairly among prizewinners. For now, we must continue to offer opportunities for outstanding female researchers to get the credit they deserve." https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00510-8

Study finds women's bodies are viewed through a moral lens more than men's bodies. Could explain why there are stricter controls & judgments on women's bodies. Abortion is one example. Another: it is normal for men to be topless at the beach but not women. https://www.psypost.org/womens-bodies-are-moralized-more-than-mens-study-finds/

Silence on DEI creates a vacuum for opponents to fill with misconceptions. It is not legally risky to advocate for:
- Greater diversity of personnel
- Fairness & equity in policies & procedures
- Culture of inclusion in which employees feel they belong
https://hbr.org/2025/02/the-legal-landscape-around-dei-is-shifting-your-messaging-should-too

How women fight back against bro culture:
- combat microaggresions by asking "what do you mean?"
- stand up for other women, even just by responding to toxic behavior w/ "huh"
- share your salary info w/ other women
- use buying power w/ inclusive companies
https://www.fastcompany.com/91272686/how-women-are-fighting-back-against-bro-culture

Longtime Meta employee sues for sexual harassment & gender discrimination. "I thought that as I got more senior, I would only be able to protect more people to change the culture [but] the more senior men were, the less tolerance they had to be challenged."
https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/06/early-meta-employee-sues-for-sexual-harassment-gender-discrimination/

Study of 61 nations finds higher sexism predicts lower GDP, lower "global peace index" (more militarization, lower safety and security), greater antidemocratic practices & shorter lifespans. Sexism truly harms us all, men, women, children.
https://theconversation.com/sexism-linked-to-social-ills-for-men-and-women-finds-largest-cross-cultural-study-of-its-kind-247183

Zuckerberg exhibits "fragile masculinity," which means clinging to notions of rigid masculinity when feeling insecure and pressured to “man up."
https://theconversation.com/mark-zuckerberg-thinks-workplaces-need-to-man-up-heres-why-thats-bad-for-all-employees-no-matter-their-gender-247539

A type of office housework is helping others with their work. As this woman engineer notes, her male colleagues avoided helping others by being "outright rude or dismissive to those asking for assistance, deterring people from reaching out again."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/woman-worked-tech-industry-15-214617926.html

“If a return to masculine energy means all these bros paying fealty to the new bully on the block, that gives us new insight into what masculinity really means.”
-Dr. Juliet Williams
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/health-wellness/2025/01/17/mark-zuckerberg-meta-workforce-masculine-energy/77755286007/

While Biden affirming the Equal Rights Amendment is good, the last minute timing is a problem. Making the statement even a few weeks earlier would have allowed the Biden administration more time to legally force the archivist to publish it.
https://www.npr.org/2025/01/17/nx-s1-5264378/biden-era-national-archivist-constitution

I spoke about lookism bias against women at work with Dahlia Stroud for the Stressed But Well Dressed Podcast. Lookism is traditionally defined as a beauty bias, where attractive people have advantages that unattractive people do not. However, for women, it is a general appearance bias. In our research, no matter what the women looked like, they were criticized or actively discriminated against. Listen here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7cBBe7gGo39AlGWyyJbIyS?si=Il2sOAM-QhG5AwxyJ-YThg&nd=1&dlsi=f30b0a71c2ff4027

Study (N=520) over 25 years finds women consistently did majority of cooking, cleaning, groceries, laundry. Parenthood widened the gap. Decisions made early in relationships about the distribution of chores persisted over the life of those relationships.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/women-housework-division-labour-1.7426763

Study of 86,000 scientists in 38 countries in gender balanced fields finds only 26% of women continue their publishing careers after 19 years vs 36% of men. "Gender balance does not really guarantee equal chances of survival in science."

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00021-6

While CEOs who force RTO claim that it enables collaboration, research finds that video remote communication increases personal & professional bonds, as employees learn non-work info about each other & see each other as more authentic, human & trustworthy. https://hbr.org/2024/11/research-how-wfh-can-actually-strengthen-bonds-between-coworkers

Not listed in any of the tech billionaires morning routines: care-taking responsibilities.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14244963/The-morning-rituals-tech-billionaires-swear-led-success.html

Study finds CEOs use of war metaphors (a masculine framing) signals undue risk to financial analysts. Better to use metaphors that emphasize collaboration, long term stability and measured ambition to signal strategic prudence, not reckless competition.
https://hbr.org/2025/01/research-when-ceos-use-war-metaphors-analysts-worry

Bias is persistent in real estate development. When two women co-owners of a development firm made a proposal to buy land, the real estate broker said no. They asked a male developer to make the same offer to the same broker. It was accepted immediately. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/03/realestate/female-real-estate-developers-discrimination.html

Study finds that while men lose 17 minutes of their life with each cigarette they smoke, women lose 22 minutes.
https://www.ndtv.com/science/each-cigarette-costs-men-17-minutes-women-22-minutes-of-life-study-warns-7363248

When population rates fall, women are blamed and pressure is put on them to have more children, which includes removing bodily autonomy. But population decline isn't necessarily a bad thing, as our planet can't sustain infinite growth.
https://www.wired.com/story/women-autonomy-birth-rates-gender-rights/

see Scientific American article:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/population-decline-will-change-the-world-for-the-better/