Are men being discriminated against in the science workplace?

Altruistic-Suit-2318 · 2026-05-10T20:31:42+00:00

Yes.

When you point it out, they'll tell you that the women are more qualified. However, no such logic exists when men advance at higher rates. That would be sexism!

At MIT, for example, the acceptance rate for women is twice that of men. This pattern has persisted cleanly for decades. But there's obviously no discrimination against men -- they're just less qualified!

RevolutionaryWeb6034 · 2026-05-10T20:53:22+00:00

Yes. I’ve been in academia (STEM) for the past decade, and women candidates are put first by a large margin unfortunately. There is a large push to have a 50-50 divide in every field, even though men still make up the bulk of the candidates in hard sciences. Men have to compete much more against other men to get in, while for women it is definitely easier since the pool is way smaller. This ends up also creating a skill gap issue down the line, but it’s not like the people pushing for this care about quality of STEM whatsoever, only how it looks like from an outside perspective. It is not only is unjust to men, but also is a bad look for women because the good ones that would get admitted/hired no matter what get lumped together with the ones that only get in to meet the 50-50 criteria.

Same_Sentence_3470 · 2026-05-10T23:08:01+00:00

It’s obvious that men have been discriminated against in every field for decades. In the fields mentioned in the data the female applicants ranged from 12% to 26% yet the goal is to hire 50% women. How is that not discriminating against the vast majority of men that apply? Yet in fields like nursing, education, psychology, and many medical fields women dominate the workplace by 80% to 90% and there are never initiatives to attempt to recruit men into these fields. In OBGYN with the exception of doctors the employee base is nearly 100% women. That might seem appropriate because all the patients are women. But in Urology where 90% of the patients are men the medical care personnel are nearly 100% women with the exception of the doctors. Why don’t men have the right to same gender care as women do?

Rich_and_more_rich · 2026-05-11T01:39:42+00:00

Yes.

Example: You'll find plenty of STEM outreach programs for girls, but nothing for boys.

Longjumping_Mud8398 · 2026-05-11T10:24:54+00:00

Imagine how much smoother everything could run if we simply hired the most talented person for each job instead of worrying about what race they are, what's between their legs, and who they like to sleep with.

andreingram1 · 2026-05-11T07:49:23+00:00

Majority of the NSF grant committees are females. Grants have listed criteria such as diversity. So female PIs are more likely to get awarded with that 10%-20% and started their career. I ghosted wrote the majority of NSF Career grant for my PI on a new topic where I had way more experience than the PI, and after it had been written, I was kicked out despite what was first promised. My repeated complaints to NSF career committee was marked imappropriate.

SightAtTheMoon · 2026-05-11T10:31:51+00:00

Feel free to look into how Medicine was removed from the original concept of STEM so as not to over-balance it towards women.

spartanken115 · 2026-05-11T11:59:47+00:00

Absolutely!

It very disappointing to tell you all that every promotion and every single new hire since January, in my organization has been women.

The problem isn’t their gender; its the exclusion of higher qualified men that are went right over or past for promotions by…you guessed it, a women mid-level manager, thats hit the wall, and now they have an axe to grind with men in general, as payback for everything bad thats ever happened to them.

This started when they started promoting people under new dei policies. Men immediately stopped being competitive and being promoted internally and they instead conducted (pre announced interview question interviews) and used a ‘metric’. If I had the smoking gun I would sue it was so bad.

Now we are stuck with disfunctional hate filled women that see every male coworker, especially anyone ambitious, as an enemy to be defeated. Its nauseating at the highest level.

Title	Are men being discriminated against in the science workplace?
Author	iainmf
Upvotes	292
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Date	May 10, 2026 8:14 PM UTC (2 months ago)
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