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Abstract
Interview study with women in graduate physics and astronomy programs regarding their experiences with sexism, discrimination, and particularly microagressions.
Highlights
Current numbers suggest that women in physics only comprise about 20% of all undergraduate and graduate students and 14% of faculty [1,2,3]
The research question used to guide this work was “How can we understand the gendered experiences described by these women through the frameworks of microaggressions and hostile sexism?” The experiences that were categorized from these women were both from a specific interview question about their gendered experiences and from other personal stories described throughout the entirety of the interview, which included or referenced gender
Astronomy has a much larger representation of women compared to physics, the same gendered experiences were described in both fields
Summary
Current numbers suggest that women in physics only comprise about 20% of all undergraduate and graduate students and 14% of faculty [1,2,3]. These numbers can vary by subfield [1,4,5], but the overall physics average remains small. Physics offers a productive starting point for this work, because of its very low numbers of women, and due to a uniquely gendered culture which has been described in the literature [20,21,27,28].
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