Hi all. Earlier this year I was at a workshop for early career academics and I've been thinking about this ever since. It just so happened that most of the people in the room were women (many of them relatively young). The panel consisted of four people, three of whom were white men. They gave some great advice on career development and publishing, in the course of which several described their own route to success. The thing is not once did they acknowledge or even seriously entertain the possibility that this pathway may have been more available to them than it might be to others who are (for example) not white and male.
So the question is AIBU to a) think that being white and male may have offered additional help beyond pure talent and b) to even consider that one of them might have mentioned this? Would I have been totally unreasonable to ask them (in a non-confrontational manner) to reflect on that point? I didn't say anything and now I'm not sure whether I should have had the courage to do so.
I'd be really interested to know what others here think. For additional context, the workshop was broadly situated in the area of equality (and did not take place in the UK, although that's less relevant).
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wonkywheels · 23/09/2019 12:57
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