week 10 by yulin Bai

Through this week's reading, my experience is that, obviously, successful female scientists are more adaptable. In their lifetime, Asian women have overcome obvious obstacles: teachers, family and society do not encourage us to pursue our career in stem field; lack of role models; in unfriendly, sometimes even bad working environment; excessive housework and the burden of caring for others; in all aspects of their career - recruitment, promotion, publishing, remuneration, workload and funding Distribution - there are biases in favor of male colleagues. Women of color feel more strongly about these barriers, and they are faced with the double effects of racial discrimination and gender discrimination.



However, even after a lifetime of struggle for a place in the scientific community, they are unprepared for the gender and racial inequalities they experience in the 2019 new crown pandemic. The most serious effects of the epidemic will undoubtedly be the loss of life, the collapse of the economy, the interruption of humanitarian assistance and the decline of democracy. But we fear that this crisis will indirectly undermine the hard won progress women have made in science.



According to the information I have learned, epidemiology and medicine are not male dominated fields, but women are interviewed less frequently in the report, sometimes not at all. What's more, the lack of leaders of people of color is alarming, and it also deprives a small number of women scientists of color of their rights, especially considering that the current epidemic hit the most in the communities of people of color. For many women, the last straw that killed them was the inequality they faced in housework, taking care of their children and looking after their elderly parents and members of the community Wait. There is ample evidence that female staff spend more time doing housework and taking care of children than male staff. Now, almost all of us work from home, schools around the world are closed, and the burden of these responsibilities - especially child care - is heavily on women.

My question is, how can we help Asian women get rid of the unfair distribution of responsibility for caring for their children?

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