{"id":486,"date":"2014-11-25T19:31:58","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T19:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/?p=486"},"modified":"2014-11-25T20:48:37","modified_gmt":"2014-11-25T20:48:37","slug":"female-noun-or-adjective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/2014\/11\/25\/female-noun-or-adjective\/","title":{"rendered":"female, noun or adjective?"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Women<\/a>
Women Singing at a Table (Waulking the Cloth)
by Keith Henderson http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/arts\/yourpaintings\/paintings\/women-singing-at-a-table-waulking-the-cloth-94160<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Last night I had dinner with some very clever women of my acquaintance. I mentioned to them that I had been on “unconscious bias’ training.\u00a0 ‘What does that even mean<\/em>?’ they asked. Luckily, I was able to clarify as I have now had 3 different men mansplain it to me.<\/p>\n

The University is on an equality and diversity kick. I have now been to 2 sessions on the topic. One much better than the other. I’ll be sending my feedback in. In today’s session I asked whether unconscious bias was the new name for prejudice. That didn’t go down well.<\/span><\/p>\n

Clearly there are no women who can deliver unconscious bias training to senior university managers, which surprises me, since you would think it was a rich area of work. Perhaps all the female presenters and trainers are being kept in reserve for the Aurora sessions <\/a>and Athena SWAN sessions.<\/a><\/p>\n

One thing I have noticed though is that colleagues in the sessions seem reluctant to use the word ‘women<\/em>‘.\u00a0 I have heard ‘girls’,<\/em> ‘ladies<\/em> ‘and ‘females’<\/em> repeatedly.<\/p>\n

It was the repeated use of the word ‘girls’ <\/em>and some rather off-colour anecdotes about lesbians which makes me mark down the second set of presenters. That, and some very uninspiring pedagogy. Surely we can do better than this.<\/p>\n

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