Timeline for Maiden Names vs. Married Names
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| Jun 28, 2012 at 13:14 | comment | added | Ryan O'Donnell | Igor's example #7 also refers to a male mathematician. | |
| Sep 2, 2011 at 0:41 | comment | added | user9072 | Yemon, it is mainly a problem because there is an asymmetry (and it goes in the 'wrong' direction). To make the point more clear: an analog of what you say is it is not such a big problem if various questions on general math advice are only phrased for male mathematicians, because afterall there are considerably more male than female mathematicians. Does this seem like a reasonable idea to you? I assume not. Why not? The same reason applies to this situation just that the majority-roles are interchanged. (It is not exactly the same, but I won't repeat here in detail what I wrote on meta.) | |
| Sep 1, 2011 at 23:46 | comment | added | Yemon Choi | When dealing with phenomena with broken symmetry, I don't see such a big problem with asymetric questions. | |
| Sep 1, 2011 at 21:57 | comment | added | Gil Kalai | R.W. I don't think it is appropriate to refer to the question as expressing insufferable sexism. In any case, I edited the question to make it clear that it applies also to men. | |
| Sep 1, 2011 at 10:00 | history | answered | R W | CC BY-SA 3.0 |