week 4 by yulin bai

Through this week's reading, I feel that, first of all, the social environment is not friendly to Asian women's research work, and Asian women are not encouraged to engage in research work, especially in stem discipline. The gender bias of mentors may be a direct reason why Asian women are less likely to enter the academic field. There is a vicious circle between the scarcity of Asian female professors and the unwillingness of Asian female students to enter the academic field.

Asian women researchers also suffer from direct or indirect discrimination during their doctoral studies and work. Even after overcoming all kinds of social prejudices, it is more difficult for Asian women researchers who persist in academic field to get rewards. Compared with male researchers, Asian female researchers with the same conditions are less popular in the academic job-hunting process, with less research funds, lower income, more difficult to promote, and more difficult to publish papers. The low expected return and the difficulties that may be encountered in the academic circle lead Asian women to choose to enter the academic field less rationally or to be less determined in the academic path. But will Asian women be treated fairly when they enter the workplace?

Compared with other social sciences, humanities and even stem, business and economics are more unfriendly to Asian female researchers. In addition, in the academic circle of economics, the social atmosphere that Asian women feel may also be more unfriendly. Most of the comments on male researchers focus on academic content, while the comments on Asian female researchers focus on personal characteristics, such as hot, sexy, dated, tits, etc. This kind of sexism and gender stereotypes still exist for a long time. Asian women's gender roles and social division of labor, especially childbearing, have an extremely significant impact on the career development of Asian women, which is no exception in academia.

My question is how to deal with discrimination against women? Or how to deal with the discrimination

Valverde, Kieu-Linh Caroline, and et. al. “Fight the Tower: Asian American Women Scholars Resistance and Renewal in the Academy”. Rutgers University Press, 2020