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| ====== Fall 2011 Kickoff Event ====== | ====== Fall 2011 Scenarios Discussion ====== |
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| ===== Opening ===== | * your unexpected qualifications: from a professor "Congratulations on your award! You really deserve it: your high GPA, your research experience, and you're a woman, so you really deserve this!" (adapted from a conversation I had when choosing a winner for our dept award) |
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| Present how the conditions for women have gotten better but that there are still issues. Show a little about science in general and each field through the ages (e.g., conditions in 1971, 1991, and 2011). Maybe a little from each woman prof about what she loves about science and what is most challenging and how she copes with it. | --> this may be tricky because you can't really react to this from a professor |
| ===== Tools Discussion through Scenarios ===== | |
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| | * jealous classmate: "Oh, you got into Best University? I didn't. And, I have a higher GPA than you. But, you're a woman, so they probably had a couple of spots reserved for women." |
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| ==== Your unexpected qualifications ==== | * jealous boyfriend: "You spend a lot of time with Joe in the lab. And, you always talk about him. You can't _just_ be friends with a boy. That's how we hooked up, remember? I don't think you can work in that lab anymore." |
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| **Scenario:** From an "enlightened" professor "Congratulations on your award! You really deserve it: your high GPA, your research experience, and you're a woman, so you really deserve this!" | * unevolved classmate: "Why are you in WITS? Are you some kind of feminist?" (probably would mention more about WITS, to help promote their group) |
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| **Answer Discussion:** | * interview with advisor/boss: the you-can't-get-married-or-can't-have-a-baby (you two may know how to frame this one) |
| * this may be tricky because you can't really react to this from a professor | |
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| ==== Jealous classmate ==== | * insensitive boss (this one is real; not sure how to frame): Woman: "Our colleague comments on the outfits that the women in his classes wear, and it makes the students uncomfortable." Boss: "What kind of things does he say?" Woman: "Oh, just that the dress is pretty or something like that." Boss: "I hate to think that we live in a world where we can't compliment each other." |
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| **Scenario:** "Oh, you got into Best University? I didn't, and I have a higher GPA than you. But, you're a woman, so they probably had a couple of spots reserved for women." | * insensitive boss: you: here is what is happening to me; boss: just develop a thick skin |
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| **Answer Discussion:** | * not knowing what your capable of: Boss: "A scientific big-wig is coming to our office. I'd like you to talk to her for 30 minutes." You: "What me? Oh, no. I wouldn't know what to talk to her about. Why don't you ask someone else and if no one else can, then come talk to me." |
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| ==== Jealous Boyfriend ==== | * female-stereotypical job assignments: Boss: "You are so much more organized than the rest of us: you're in charge of taking notes for this meeting." |
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| **Scenario:** "You spend a lot of time with Joe in the lab. And, you always talk about him. You can't _just_ be friends with a boy. That's how we hooked up, remember? I don't think you can work in that lab anymore." | |
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| ==== Unevolved Classmate ==== | |
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| **Scenario:** Why are you in WITS? Are you some kind of feminist?" (probably would mention more about WITS, to help promote their group) | |
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| ==== Interview with advisor/boss ==== | |
| **Scenario:** the you-can't-get-married-or-can't-have-a-baby | |
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| **Answer Discussion:** | |
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| ==== Insensitive Boss ==== | |
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| **Scenario:** Woman: "Our colleague comments on the outfits that the women in his classes wear, and it makes the students uncomfortable." Boss: "What kind of things does he say?" Woman: "Oh, just that the dress is pretty or something like that." Boss: "I hate to think that we live in a world where we can't compliment each other." | |
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| **Answer Discussion:** | |
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| **Scenario:** Woman: here is an uncomfortable situation that is happening to me. Boss: you need to toughen up and develop a thick skin | |
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| ==== Tackling a Challenge ==== | |
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| **Scenario:** Boss: "A scientific big-wig is coming to our office. I'd like you to talk to her for 30 minutes." You: "What me? Oh, no. I wouldn't know what to talk to her about. Why don't you ask someone else and if no one else can, then come talk to me." | |
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| **Answer Discussion:** | |
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| ==== Assigned Female-Stereotypical Tasks ==== | |
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| **Scenario:** Boss or Teammates: "You are so much more organized than the rest of us guys: you're in charge of taking notes for the meetings, putting the notes online, reserving a room for our meetings, reserving equipment." If you decline, then the boss/teammates accuses you of not being a team player. | |
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