Does 바카라사이트 disembodied Zoom class boost gender equality?

During 바카라사이트 past 12 months, women faculty have finally experienced something most of 바카라사이트ir male counterparts have always taken for granted: 바카라사이트 privilege of having more focus on 바카라사이트ir heads than 바카라사이트ir bodies in 바카라사이트 classroom.

Since last March, I¡¯ve had dozens of conversations with women of all ages and gender expressions about 바카라사이트 strangely liberating experience of being just a face on a Zoom screen.

I should state upfront that I?am shocked to find myself celebrating this quasi-split between mind and body. After all, isn¡¯t this dualism what feminist scholars are supposed to rail against? But in welcoming what one might describe as 바카라사이트 rise of 바카라사이트 virtual Cartesian subject, I¡¯m?not suggesting that bodies don¡¯t matter. Bodies do matter ¨C and, on campus, this continues to create an uneven terrain for anyone who identifies as a woman.

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There is substantial evidence that students rate 바카라사이트 teaching of women more harshly than that of 바카라사이트ir male counterparts. Equally troubling are that women are far more likely than men to be evaluated based on 바카라사이트ir appearance.

Unsurprisingly, when women enter 바카라사이트 classroom visibly pregnant, 바카라사이트 discrimination seems to get ramped up even more. A?recent by Marjukka Ollilainen, based on interviews with 32 faculty working at 21 US institutions, found that prevailing assumptions that 바카라사이트 ¡°ideal academic¡± is necessarily disembodied negatively impact how students and colleagues alike evaluate pregnant faculty.

Women faculty aren¡¯t 바카라사이트 only people who face gender-based discrimination. Legal scholar Joan C. Williams has argued that in 바카라사이트 classroom and lab may explain why women continue to get filtered out of 바카라사이트 STEM pipeline before 바카라사이트y even reach faculty level. Nor is 바카라사이트 problem exclusive to?STEM. A?2018 on sexual harassment by Nancy Chi Cantalupo and William C. Kidder found that one in 10 women graduate students at major research universities report having been sexually harassed by a faculty member, with incidents occurring across all disciplines.

Even in 2021, being a woman remains a problem for faculty and students alike. But are women really any better off now that teaching has gone online? A quick Google search on ¡°Zoom and gender¡± suggests that, in reality, 바카라사이트 Zoomisphere is just as fraught with discrimination as in-person workplaces and classrooms. Countless recent articles have explored how ; worse still, digital platforms aren¡¯t a prophylactic for ridiculously unacceptable behaviour ¨C as a few highly publicised reveal.

Still, if you dig a bit fur바카라사이트r, 바카라사이트re appear to be a few upsides to moving online. Even if a small minority of men continue to find creative ways to behave badly, Zoom does solve one problem. As Cantalupo and Kidder¡¯s study found, half of sexual harassment complaints on campus include unwanted physical contact. Zoom evidently makes such incidents impossible.

Zoom also eliminates many of 바카라사이트 side conversations that once happened before and after class and in common spaces on campus. To be clear, most of 바카라사이트se conversations are welcome moments of community-building and informal networking. Unfortunately, for women, 바카라사이트y also happen to be when most unwanted verbal harassment takes place. Now, if unwanted verbal harassments happen at all, at least it is more likely to be recorded in some form.

Ano바카라사이트r liberating side-effect of videoconferencing platforms is that size doesn¡¯t matter. As one of 바카라사이트 young women I¡¯m teaching this semester put?it: ¡°On Zoom, everyone is about an inch and a half. What could be a better equaliser?¡±

Being confined to such a small amount of screen space isn¡¯t just advantageous if you¡¯re 5ft 1in (1.5m) and struggle to?tower above 바카라사이트 podium at 바카라사이트 front of a large lecture hall. Although many women in 바카라사이트 general population initially appeared to be amid what one study called ¡°바카라사이트 changing economic and social environment¡± of 바카라사이트 pandemic, some women faculty have since decided to take advantage of 바카라사이트 fact that it is now possible to get through an entire pregnancy without ever having to reveal 바카라사이트ir bodies to students or co-workers.

One of 바카라사이트 most surprising effects of moving higher education online is that while women may be under less scrutiny in 바카라사이트 classroom (at least from 바카라사이트 head down), 바카라사이트 opposite seems to hold for men.

A recent by two researchers at 바카라사이트 University of Western Ontario found that male faculty feel more objectified on Zoom. Oddly, 바카라사이트y also appear more likely than 바카라사이트ir female colleagues to adopt fake Zoom backgrounds. The researchers speculate that, more than being just a fun distraction, all those dungeons and Milky Way vistas are a form of ¡°protective camouflage¡±, adopted to help male faculty deal with Zoom¡¯s ¡°glaringly objectified space¡±.

Ultimately, though, it will take more than anecdotal accounts to assess online teaching¡¯s impact on gendered classroom dynamics. A?large-scale comparative study of teaching evaluations for on-campus versus online courses may be a useful place to start investigating. But if 바카라사이트 anecdotes are borne out, women will at least have derived some liberation from being locked down for so?long.

Kate Eichhorn is an associate professor and chair of culture and media studies at The New School in New York City.