>From a survey of Virginia Tech faculty:
"On-campus women respondents assessed every aspect of the climate less positively than did men. While only a third of women respondents rated the university climate relatively non-sexist, more than two-thirds of men perceived the climate for women as positive," and, "Whites were largely unaware of the extent of racism perceived in the university climate by African-Americans. For example, 65 percent of African-Americans judged the university climate as relatively racist compared with only 18 percent of white respondents." http://www.dsp.multicultural.vt.edu/climate/ Similarly, on this listserve, 8 out of 9 (89%) women said there is gender bias in ecology/biology, while 3 out of 5 (60%) men said that gender bias does not exist. 3 out of 3 women were not concerned with age bias, while 2 out of 3 men expressed concern about age bias. 4 out of 6 (67%) of women believed that maternity/paternity leave or raising children poses an additional challenge/problem, while 7 out 9 (78%) men said that maternity/paternity leave should not pose a problem. Anita Lahey Disclaimer: My goal in citing a personal anecdote was not to indict (or incite) a particular person, department, institution, field of research, the American Fisheries Society or to "discourage undergraduate women from the applied sciences". My goal was to shake up complacency.
