«This behavior
towards women in any field, any country is unacceptable.»
Not exact matches
Internalizing the language, concepts and communicative norms of a particular
field is crucial to the development of competencies
in that
field (see, for example, P. N. Johnson - Laird, Mental Models:
Towards a Cognitive Science of Language, Inference, and Consciousness [Harvard University Press, 19831 and George Lakoff,
Women, Fire and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal about the Mind [University of Chicago Press, 1987]-RRB-.
Although social progress moves
in fits and starts (and often retreats), the movement
towards inclusivity does coincide with a broader enthusiasm for
women's voices and stories, visible
in other cultural
fields including television, film, literature, and music.
A recent ABA report found that «inappropriate or stereotypical comments»
towards women attorneys are among the more overt signifiers of the discrimination, both stated and implicit, that contributes to their underrepresentation
in the legal
field.
I find the
field of evolutionary psychology frustrating and not helpful
in our progression
towards equality for men and
women.