Student Records Male Classmates Repeatedly Interrupting Her During Zoom Calls And Her TikTok Goes Viral

Claire McDonnell is 1 of 4 women among almost 60 men in a graduate science and finance program at the University of Iowa. And the minority have a problem.

“Some of us girls have the top standings in the program, and no matter how experienced we are, none of the men seem to take us seriously,” the 22-year-old told BuzzFeed News.

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Student Records Male Classmates Repeatedly Interrupting Her During Zoom Calls And Her TikTok Goes Viral

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Lily Mae Kitty 4 years ago

I am a woman who owns and runs an estate sale company with a female partner. We do all the organization work, appraising items and selling it at the sale. We're 59 and 65 years old. We still get men who ask if there's a man they can talk to about tools, a vehicle, lawnmowers, generators, etc. It's maddening.

38points

deanna woods 4 years ago

To everyone who reads this: This Rokas guy is just trying to be an idiot and we have to pay him no mind.

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Leo Domitrix 4 years ago

Yep. OMG. Back in my day? It was *worse*. You didn't get into STEM if you were female, unless you did thrice as much, and thrice as well, and then? You had to dodge the male professors who saw female students as either secretaries or sex objects. And that was the early 1990s... *sigh* And in med school? People asked "Why not just be a nurse?" (OMG.) And and and... Yep. I can fix the car, the house, and the broken leg, but I need to go cook supper and hush. (And some of that came from WOMEN.) RAISE BETTER PEOPLE.

32points

Evil Little Thing 4 years ago (edited)

During my PhD work one of the men in the program told me I should be home by five every evening because my son "deserved a childhood". Same guy got mad at me "acting cute" when I told him I would only make time to train him if he stopped showing up 20 minutes late. This was about 5 years ago.

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Cassie 4 years ago

It starts early in education, too. In the early 90s, I took a drafting class in high school. The instructor sat me at the far back corner of the class. I wear glasses, so I always choose a front seat and I had never had a teacher assign me to the back of a class before. He refused to acknowledge me when I raised my hand in class. Our classroom had one computer, so we had to sign up if we wanted to learn CAD and he taught it in small groups. I was the only one who signed up, but didn't get assigned to a group. In electronics class, the guys chased me around slamming staples into my back while the instructor just sat there doing nothing. My parents didn't help - my step mom wouldn't let me take auto mechanics because "girls don't do that sort of thing" and I was forbidden to take tech in college. The choices they gave me to major in were business or nursing.

8points

claudiausslf 4 years ago

Leo Domitrix love

2points

Aria Whitaker 4 years ago

Thanks to all the men who so graciously came on here to mansplain how this has zero to do with her being a woman. We appreciate you correcting this woman on her frequent, painfully common experiences as a woman in a male dominated room, as well as the thousands of other women who have experienced this their entire lives. You surely know better than all of them...obviously the only way they would be sexist is if they actually screamed "I hate women!!"...nothing short of that can be sexist, right guys? These silly females, I swear.

26points