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

Men: Be an ally and disrupt the bro code. When you hear harassment directed at women, you can say:
- "Not funny"
- “We don’t do that here.”
- “I find that offense, and I don’t ever want to hear that again.”
https://www.fastcompany.com/91229814/men-its-time-to-disrupt-bro-code-and-shut-down-misogyny

Shrink it and pink it: Too many products are scaled down & colored pink to market to women, when the design was made for men. "Unisex" also means designed for men but marketed to women. Only 19% of product designers & 11% of design leadership are women.
https://www.sir.advancedleadership.harvard.edu/articles/shrink-it-and-pink-it-gender-bias-product-design

Despite outperforming men on leadership competencies, study (N=275) finds women are less likely to identify as a leader (32% of men; 25.5% of women). 43% of early career women aspire to top mgmt vs 34% of men. After just 2 years, the % of aspiring women drops to 16%, whereas it holds steady at 34% among men.
https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/when-qualified-women-resist-the-leader-label/

The idea of a woman taking up the highest office in the land triggers a reminder that men are no longer exclusively in charge — not in homes, politics, or the workplace. This is destabilizing for men and a lot of women too.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/11/15/us-woman-president-expert-roundup-00189718

Countries ranking high on women's rights also score well on democracy, peacefulness & prosperity. Top countries:

- Iceland
- Denmark
- Norway
- Finland
- Sweden
- Germany
- Lithuania
- Belgium
- Switzerland
- Luxembourg
- Austria
- Netherlands
- New Zealand

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kathleenpeddicord/2024/11/12/top-12-countries-for-womens-rights-and-gender-equality/

Purity culture wasn’t just about telling kids ‘don’t have sex,’ but also about teaching married women that it was their job to meet their husband's sexual needs. Thus eroding consent: ‘You can’t say no anymore because it’s your job to meet his needs.’
https://www.psypost.org/purity-culture-horrible-sex-new-research-sheds-light-on-white-christian-womens-sexual-well-being/

The view of hegemonic masculinity (male superiority as a birthright) that Trump appeals to "harms men, too, offering appealingly simple answers that ultimately leave their adherents that much more isolated." Elizabeth Spiers https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/06/opinion/trump-white-young-men.html?unlocked_article_code=1.X04.Uyg-.vVlQNhugAA4R

This election shows how engrained sexism and racism are in American society. I am sad for us all. But we must keep up the good fight for equality for all people.

Chanel has a woman CEO & 76% women employees. CEO Leena Nair visited Microsoft & experimented with ChatGPT. She asked it to "show a pic of sr leadership team from Chanel visiting Microsoft." The result: All men in suits, "not even in fashionable clothes."
https://fortune.com/2024/10/30/chanel-ceo-leena-nair-microsoft-openai-chatgpt/

Sexist code: When voters say VP Harris "is not 'ready' or doesn't have the right 'personality' or 'what it takes,' what they really mean is that the problem is she’s a woman." When Hillary Clinton ran for president, the code was "There’s just something about her." https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjr430gry81o

Last year at least half of Iceland's workforce worked 32 hours per week with no reduction in pay. Iceland's economy expanded by 5%, a growth rate second only to that of Malta among rich European economies.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/25/business/iceland-shorter-working-week-economy/index.html

Mankeeping: Since men's social networks have shrunk in the past 3 decades, it leaves men dependent on women in their lives for emotional support. Research finds some women spend several hours each week managing the social well-being of men.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kimelsesser/2024/10/23/mankeeping--how-shrinking-male-social-networks-may-burden-women/

Recent study of 30 different tampons found all contained the 16 metal(oids) they were tested for. 100M women worldwide use tampons but we are only just now studying their potential toxicity. Why? Public health has been biased to ignore women's health.
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/toxic-tampons-and-gender-bias-in-health-research/

While the Seth Rogens of the world are applauded for choosing to not have children, childfree women are asked "Are you sure?" and told "Maybe you will change you mind." It is seen as women's duty to bear children.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/anna-kendrick-childfree-quote_l_67117ddae4b0e33eefb25fae

In the 1990s, Lilly Ledbetter learned she was making thousands less than male counterparts at Goodyear. She sued, initially won, but was overturned bc SCOTUS said she should have filed within 180 days of the very first time Goodyear paid her less. Obama's first signed law was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which restarts the 180-day clock every time a worker receives a paycheck. Each paycheck is a potential violation-not just the first one. https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/13/us/lilly-ledbetter

You can allow your employees to work remotely and come together in-person. Spotify encourages employees to come together during “core weeks.” This maintains a strong team culture & minimizes the environmental impact of commuting. https://www.edmtunes.com/2024/10/spotify-keep-remote-work/

When voters say they need more info about VP Harris, their hesitation is about gender stereotypes. There has never been a woman president, so some ppl can't picture a woman of color as president. So she must prove it again and again.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kimelsesser/2024/09/23/undecided-voters-need-more-information-on-harris-gender-bias-may-be-the-reason/

Young men more religious than young women. Well, yeah, when a religion continually tells women that they are less than, are to be subservient & can't have bodily autonomy, it is no surprise that women are "moving past the debates and out of church doors."
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/23/us/young-men-religion-gen-z.html

Gendered ageism: Study (N=15K) finds 49% of women in their 20s, 37% of women in 30s, 24% of women in 40s & 29% of women in 50s say age has negatively impacted their career. Women in their 20s & 30s 2x as likely as men to field unwanted comments about age.
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/19/millennial-and-gen-z-women-feel-ageism-most-report-finds.html

As it turns out, women leaders are not likely to act based on their emotion, but men are. Study (N=137) finds women leaders had low levels of abusive supervision regardless of their anxiety. Men leaders engaged in more abusive supervision (being rude, ridiculing, yelling at, or lying to their reports) when their anxiety was higher. https://hbr.org/2024/09/research-how-anxiety-shapes-mens-and-womens-leadership-differently