{"id":2002,"date":"2025-03-24T12:14:07","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T12:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/?p=2002"},"modified":"2025-03-24T12:14:07","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T12:14:07","slug":"gendered-microaggressions-in-computing-education-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/?p=2002","title":{"rendered":"Gendered microaggressions in computing education"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The final report from our gendered microaggressions project is available from the CPHC site:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cphc.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Aberystwyth-CPHC_Microbehaviours_project_report.pdf\">https:\/\/cphc.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Aberystwyth-CPHC_Microbehaviours_project_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We found all sorts of interesting things (read the report for the full story). Unsurprisingly:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Women experience more microaggressions than other genders<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Women witness more<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Women and NB people have significantly higher experience of microaggressions than men<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>This persists across microaggression types<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>We propose a slightly modified taxonomy of microaggressions, adapted from Derald Wing Sue&#8217;s work on racial microaggressions. Our categories are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Stranger in strange land: &#8220;Oh, you do computing? Really? You don&#8217;t look like a computer scientist.&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Make the tea: &#8220;Oh, you take the minutes. I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve got much tidier handwriting than me.&#8221;  This category (obviously) includes being asked to make the tea.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Denial of bias: &#8220;Oh they didn&#8217;t say that because you were a woman, they say that to everyone.&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Myth of Meritocracy: &#8220;Oh the reason there aren&#8217;t any profs is because women don&#8217;t want to do that kind of work. We&#8217;re a meritocracy here, the best person for the job always gets in&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Gender-role-spillover: &#8220;Hey if you want to be heard in meetings, speak up more and use a deeper voice.&#8221; This category includes things like socials around traditionally guy themes, and this idea that women need to &#8220;man up&#8221; or lean in to a situation; it&#8217;s the women that needs to change (not the workplace). <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Environmental: &#8220;Yeah, all the buildings are named after guys. What of it?&#8221;. This category includes things like pornographic imagery as background images and screensavers (no, really &#8211; some women report turning up for group project meetings and seeing their peers with porn or hentai imagery as desktop images).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The final report from our gendered microaggressions project is available from the CPHC site: https:\/\/cphc.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Aberystwyth-CPHC_Microbehaviours_project_report.pdf We found all sorts of interesting things (read the report for the full story). Unsurprisingly: We propose a slightly modified taxonomy of microaggressions, adapted from Derald Wing Sue&#8217;s work on racial microaggressions. Our categories are:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-handee","post-2002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2003,"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002\/revisions\/2003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}