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<blockquote data-quote="Paul Farquhar" data-source="post: 7783831" data-attributes="member: 6906155"><p>Perhaps to address the toxicity you need to understand how the hobby came to be male dominated in the first place.</p><p></p><p>We know that early on toxicity was not the issue. How do we know? Not because it didn't exist, but because in order to encounter toxicity a female would have to actually try and join (no internet in the 80s). And those of us males who where there have the same experience: no females ever tried to join in the first place. And there is little evidence for the spontaneous formation of all female groups. The barriers to entry occur <em>much</em> earlier. Toxicity is more a consequence of those initial barriers, not the cause.</p><p></p><p>As a Physics teacher, I am concerned about gender balance in Physics and Engineering, and it is very closely related. Whilst I have plenty of anecdotal evidence of toxicity in those subjects it's generally encountered by people who have already overcome those initial barriers.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Paul Farquhar, post: 7783831, member: 6906155"] Perhaps to address the toxicity you need to understand how the hobby came to be male dominated in the first place. We know that early on toxicity was not the issue. How do we know? Not because it didn't exist, but because in order to encounter toxicity a female would have to actually try and join (no internet in the 80s). And those of us males who where there have the same experience: no females ever tried to join in the first place. And there is little evidence for the spontaneous formation of all female groups. The barriers to entry occur [I]much[/I] earlier. Toxicity is more a consequence of those initial barriers, not the cause. As a Physics teacher, I am concerned about gender balance in Physics and Engineering, and it is very closely related. Whilst I have plenty of anecdotal evidence of toxicity in those subjects it's generally encountered by people who have already overcome those initial barriers. [/QUOTE]
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