diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5b6a065 --- /dev/null +++ b/.gitignore @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +.Rproj.user +.Rhistory +.RData +.Ruserdata diff --git a/book_group.Rproj b/book_group.Rproj new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8e3c2eb --- /dev/null +++ b/book_group.Rproj @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +Version: 1.0 + +RestoreWorkspace: Default +SaveWorkspace: Default +AlwaysSaveHistory: Default + +EnableCodeIndexing: Yes +UseSpacesForTab: Yes +NumSpacesForTab: 2 +Encoding: UTF-8 + +RnwWeave: Sweave +LaTeX: pdfLaTeX diff --git a/invisible_women/ch3-4/book-club.Rmd b/invisible_women/ch3-4/book-club.Rmd new file mode 100644 index 0000000..57c0f4a --- /dev/null +++ b/invisible_women/ch3-4/book-club.Rmd @@ -0,0 +1,278 @@ +--- +title: "NHS-R Community Book club" +subtitle: "Invisible Women, chapters 3 & 4" +author: "Zoë Turner" +date: "July 2021" +output: + xaringan::moon_reader: + css: xaringan-themer.css + lib_dir: libs + seal: false + self_contained: true + nature: + highlightStyle: googlecode + highlightLines: true + highlightLanguage: ["r"] + countIncrementalSlides: false + ratio: "16:9" +--- + +```{r setup, include = FALSE} +library(knitr) +library(tidyverse) + +### Packages not on CRAN ### +library(xaringanthemer) + +# install.packages("remotes") +# remotes::install_github("mitchelloharawild/icon") +library(icon) # icons need to be loaded to view so run following code if not already done +# icon::download_fontawesome() + +# install.packages("devtools") +#devtools::install_github("gadenbuie/xaringanExtra") +library(xaringanExtra) +xaringanExtra::use_share_again() # need to get the slide button on html view + +# set default options +opts_chunk$set(echo = FALSE, + fig.width = 7.252, + fig.height = 4, + dpi = 300, + dev.args = list(type = "cairo"), + eval = TRUE, + warning = FALSE, + message = FALSE, + error = FALSE) + +``` + +```{r echo=FALSE} +style_mono_accent( + base_color = "#1c5253", + header_font_google = google_font("Josefin Sans"), + text_font_google = google_font("Montserrat", "300", "300i"), + code_font_google = google_font("Fira Mono") +) + +``` + +class: inverse, middle, center + +# `r rmarkdown::metadata$title` +---- +## **`r rmarkdown::metadata$subtitle`** +### `r rmarkdown::metadata$author` | `r rmarkdown::metadata$date` + + +--- + +# Note following meeting + +I wrote these notes for the group but didn't show them as we discussed the book generally and a few of the stories that are featured. + +These slides are built using {xaringan}, {xaringanExtra} and {xaringanthemer} - there appears to be an issue with the `--` for some slides where this is printing and text isn't sliding into view as intended. + +--- + +# Chapter 3 - money + +Opens with a story about the women of Iceland going on strike on 24 October 1975 + +-- + +* 90% (20k+) of women went on strike + +-- + +* A year later Iceland passed the first Gender Equality Act + +-- + +* By 2017 Iceland topped the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Index for the 8th year running + +-- + +## That's a huge impact + +--- + +# But things are changing... + +A common retort that men are doing more of their share of the household work burden + +-- + +* Individually, yes + +* At a population level, no + +-- + +Women take on a greater share of housework, caring responsibilities and also, often, work + +-- + +Leisure pursuits are imbalanced with women's being shorter, more fragmented and often +combine tasks + +-- + +When ill or recovering from surgery women return to the housework sooner + +-- + +To the extent that single female recover better from heart attacks than married women + +--- + +# Unpaid work + +The hidden data for women isn't always 'direct' + +-- + +Indirectly women are not being counted in unpaid work they do when "science" says you shouldn't "work" more than 40 (paid of course) hours a week + +-- + +To accommodate unpaid work responsibilities women work part-time (75% are women) + +-- + +Part-time work is often lower graded so women get paid less + +-- + +That gets hidden in pay gap statistics when part-time and full-time is combined + +--- + +# Money + +Lower pension pots and savings due to working patterns + +-- + +Leads to greater poverty in older years + +-- + +Remember women live longer then men (on average) + +-- + +And as for maternity it pays poorly to have children + +* UK was 22nd out of 24 European countries on length of "decently paid maternity leave" + +-- + +For some it doesn't pay at all, like MPs and councillors + +-- + +Paternity schemes where time is shared often work better when rules where its not taken up by the other partner then it's lost + +-- + +Huge effects on women working in universities as the system of tenure doesn't allow for gaps to have children + +-- + +Some processes put in place that are meant to be fair by including the father, further disadvantaged the mother - they were able to use the time to publish whereas the mothers didn't + +--- + +# Childcare + +It's not just about babies! + +-- + +Taxes disadvantage women who need childcare as it's a personal expense + +-- + +But booking a hotel for a night is a valid expense + +--- + +# Chapter 4 - meritocracy + +Blind auditions for the orchestra equalised numbers of man to women + +-- + +Desire for meritocracy to exist, to work very strong + +-- + +Criticism in performance reviews is more personal for women - tone & character + +-- + +Believing in meritocracy can introduce bias (justification of decisions?) + +-- + +Differences in publishing and citations (men self cite 70% more than women) + +-- + +Male default thinking so when using initials, assumed male + +--- + +# Time + +Differences in time requested to do papers (requesting extensions, re-grading and so on) + +-- + +Admin burden falls to women - extra teaching hours, paperwork + +-- + +Emotional support expected from staff but then also penalised + +-- + +Least effective males are still ranked higher than more effective females + + +--- + +# Teaching + +We still use teaching evaluations and they are useless (resonates) + +-- + +Personal comments appear more frequently in female lecturers feedback + +-- + +Girls are learning that brilliance and genius is female at school + +-- + +Females were the original computers and coders. Great book recommendation is [Coders](https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/clive-thompson/coders/9781529018981) by Clive Thompson + +--- + +# Thoughts + +Highlights poor logical thinking - so much of what is highlighted in this book is that assumptions are made so often on what we see and record, forgetting the missing + +-- + +Lots of facts + +-- + +Stories are more memorable + +-- + +After a week, what do you remember? \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/invisible_women/ch3-4/book-club.html b/invisible_women/ch3-4/book-club.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3133984 --- /dev/null +++ b/invisible_women/ch3-4/book-club.html @@ -0,0 +1,383 @@ + + +
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