Songmin Li ASA002 A04 Week4

The article which is the part of Fight the Tower,  “Killing Machine: Exposing the Health Threats to Asian American Women Scholars in Academia", is kind of a research to show that the culture of academia innately stay in a opponent location to women of color, and plus, minority stereotypes of models and expectations generate a particular burden on Asian-American women (line3-5, 2020).  In the last part, it is stated that the academia has the obligation and the necessity to change this phenomenon (line20, 2020), which brings me to another poem, “Who Killed Soek-Fang Sim” written by Wang Ping. 
I was sad about these rows: "Already assuming you're just another/ Dumb teacher, dum scholar, dumb woman (line2-3, 2017)." It claims that no matter what your personal abilities are, as a woman of color, these are not the criteria to judge if you are good in academia or not, your race and your gender just set up barriers for you. 
The news reports nowadays confirms this idea. According to Tekla,  in the overall U.S. technology industry, the changes of gender gap is growing instead of narrowing (line10-15, 2020).

The above chart shows the data of the percent value of salary to women which are lower than to men. We can see that the percent value for 2019 is back to 63%, which is larger than 60% in 2018. Sexism still exists in many industries. Not only that, racial discrimination is still an issue that needs our attention. Their unfair experience is not supposed to exist. We should focus on how to better solve this problem in an age where information travels so fast and effective.

My question is: Is the crackdown on Asian women another example of a patriarchal society?


References:

Tekla S. P, (2020). Women in Tech Face Increased Wage Discrimination. IEEE Spectrum. Retrieved from: https://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/at-work/tech-careers/women-in-tech-face-increased-wage-discrimination

Valverde, K.-L. C., & Dariotis, W. M., (2020). Fight the tower: Asian American women scholars 
resistance and renewal in the academy. Rutgers University Press.

Wang, P, (2014). Who Killed Soek-Fang Sim. HeinOnline. Retrieved from: https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/berkwolj29&div=17&id=&page=