Cat Hicks on Nostr: Great demo of a pervasive dynamic, to get through a gate in fields that activate ...

Great demo of a pervasive dynamic, to get through a gate in fields that activate gender biases we require women to be at the highest achievement level to be treated comparably to lower achieving men

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/math-intensive-fields-have-a-gender-problem-the-men-are-worse-at-math/

Also potentially demos the backlash effect, where socially punishing bias incongruence can be considered more important than getting the value of the work itself. Highly technical women can be hated FOR technical achievement

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0191308508000051