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Marketing Intern – Patti Conte, Ltd. – cold calling and persuasion
Secured publications and new artists
Project Intern – Herrmann – market research
Assigned AI-driven browser extension project and researching SaaS NLP options
After vetting their capabilities, went with IBM
Producer – TEDxScarsdale – connecting the dots
Put together an entire production
Led fundraising and ticket sales
Why do your skills complement this role?
Analytical mind: I always want to answer the “why” and understand the driving factors of a trend; I am an expert at spotting patterns and connecting the dots
Eg. Patti Conte
Data-driven: I find truth in numbers and statistics; I am well-versed with data-analytics platforms and know how to handle that data to derive meaningful insights
Eg. Herrmann current project (statistical analysis of classifier performance)
Expert communicator: I can take a jumble of information and turn it into findings that means something to people; my main area of study is understanding how people understand, so this is my greatest asset
Eg. Sister and 9th-grade teacher using infographic for example
Now learning Tableau
How do your studies prepare you for this position?
Cognitive Science
Learning peoples’ motivating factors, which allows me to make better predictions and better foresee causal relationships between people and markets
Better understand client’s needs and connect with them interpersonally
Quantitative Social Science
Learning how to take qualitative phenomena and quantify them in a meaningful way
Learning data-analytics with technical tools like R
Computer Science
Gives me particular industry knowledge in a field that has grown in its dominance over the course of my lifetime
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Science and masculinity
Association is regarded as a myth
Self-evident and nonsensical
Science is usually seen as emotionally and sexually neutral
If more women were involved in science then it may take on a different methodology
Scientific thought is male thought
More men happen to be involved in science than women but this is an effect not a cause
Evidence:
Science is metaphorically talked about as masculine
eg) Sexual undertones in “hard” sciences vs. “soft” science
Facts are “hard”, feelings are “soft”
Women thinking scientifically = thinking “like a man”
Jordan Peterson: fewer women in science because fewer women than men are interested in science
In countries with a higher degree of gender equality, a lower number of women go into STEM fields
Argument:
Men are naturally overrepresented among those who are especially good at, or interested in, scientific pursuits
These differences are innate
Hence we should expect to find women underrepresented in the sciences, and there’s nothing that should be done about it
Keller’s strategy:
Explain differences developmentally rather than genetically
Developmental story explain why science in particular is seen as masculine
Myth and metaphor
Language of metaphor can become reality when scientists internalize it
Science is surrounded by metaphors and language is particularly important
Science and nature
Complement of science is Nature
Nature is seen as a feminine and vulnerable entity that men try to conquer
Leads to science as a masculine tradition
Where does genderization come from?
Scientific thought is intertwined with emotional and sexual development
Development of objectivity
Association of science and masculinity has connections to childhood development
The infant feels as though the mother is part of them/no sense of self or other → infant learns they are independent from the mother and from the rest of the world → other = objective, self = subjective
Science and love
Further, difficult developmental stage of ambiguity
Self is not completely separated from the world so there is not an absolute distinction between subjective and objective
Self can influence the world and vice versa; self is in the world; other objects in the world are also selves
Can’t have empathy without an understanding of relation to the world
Objectivity and science
We often take separation of self and other to be cognitive maturity
Classical science has taught us that it is possible to be an objective observer and it is ideal to do so
Objectivity and gender
Move from oneness (with mother) to separation (from mother; = not mother) leads to conditioning of objectivity
Father helps rescue child’s fragile ego, becoming the embodiment of separation
Father exists in the outside world and represents objectivity itself
Oneness → separation (self/other) → || ambiguity (no absolute distinction)
Mother/female → father/masculine
Ben Lehrburger
COGS 021 21F
Final Project Report
Culture
Genderization of science exists because of the privilege of masculinity in European culture
Leads us to privilege objectivity overall
Internalization
Men are not better suited to science
Men are not by nature objective
Science is not intrinsically masculine
We just happen to think that science is objective and men are objective
Some type of mythology
To be expected that these gender norms will be internalized based on how you identify yourself at a young age