Was that M.I.T., or Princeton?
UC Berkeley.
EDIT: I see that our rankings have fallen recently; in any case, #3 is relevant enough.
- perpetually glossing over women's achievements when bringing them up in the classroom would be appropriate (example: Early contributors to computer science not including Ada Lovelace)
Care to give examples? Are we talking about Grace Booth, Betty Snyder, Grace Hopper. . . ?
I gave an example. It's right there next to the bullet point. Ada Lovelace. Other examples include Emmy Noethur (for a basic course in abstract algebra), Sophie Germain (should have showed up in our discrete mathematics course), Hypatia (history of mathematics course), Sofia Kabalevskaya (diffeqs/linear algebra course), and so on and so forth. I'm only listing off the ones that
should have been included, not ones I'd shoe-horn in for female exposure.
- ogling female students during office hours
What, in this context, qualifies as 'ogling?'
Staring at my breasts instead of focusing on teaching me.
- being sexually harassed during lecture
This is a serious charge, which ought to have serious consequences if proven true. What, if any, action(s) was/were taken by the governing body of the school, upon registering complaints?
None. He was one of the key teachers for the honors program and so I didn't report him for staring at me and zipping and unzipping his fly, because I needed the letter of recommendation and could not afford to damage my reputation.
I anonymously complained as part of a study of the "on-campus atmosphere." UC Berkeley is currently being tried for failing to respond to sexual assault allegations under Title IX, along with a lot of other universities. As of the year I graduated, a mathematics circle for female students was formed.
- being more harshly graded
Please clarify. Were the exact same answers, using the exact same methodologies/formulae, given differing evaluations?
Yep. On one memorable event, I was given an F on an assignment for, according to the grader, making an error that was nowhere present (and, if present, would have been minor). I was repeatedly graded down in that course, maybe 3 or 4 times.
- being told that your idea is wrong until a man repeats it and receives the credit
By whom? A single professor? All of them? PAs? Fellow students? All of the above?
Repeatedly, by a graduate student given the responsibility of teaching an "introductory research course" on topological surfaces. There were similar events with other staff.
- male pupils saying "geez, there's a lot of women in this class!" when there's two
C'mon. Without any context, this seems a rather superficial point.
That's a barometer. When 2/17 people in a class being female is "good representation," something is wrong.
- male students thinking it's appropriate to loudly make rape jokes for hours in the computer lab
You recognized them as jokes, yes? Moving on. . .
Next time you see a couple of women joking about how they totally cut the cock and balls off that last assignment, hahaha, really emasculated it, fuckin' NEUTERED it, LOL, FUCKING NEUTERED IT, you might understand why this is a problem.
- TAs saying "Don't write like a girl on the class forums unless you want sex rather than answers"
Once again, a rightfully punishable offense. What action(s) were taken by the governing body of the school, upon filing a formal complaint?
None that I know of. Again, I didn't complain until the end of the semester because I needed my grade and no one monitoring the forums--including the lead professor--seemed to think it was notable. I wrote it up in full for my evaluations of the course.
- when getting into an argument or debate, being asked if you're on your period
Idiocy as a bolstering of poor argumentation isn't monopolized by either sex. Also, how much debating and argumentation is involved in mathematics?
... This more than anything else convinces me that you don't know what you're talking about. There's a lot of it. Arguing over the correct approach, arguing over whether or not there's a hole in the mathematical argument, arguing about whether or not this approach is cleaner than the other one, arguing about whether this or that definition produces better mathematics, arguing about whether intuitionists who refuse to admit proofs by contradiction have a leg to stand on, arguing about notation, arguing about whether such and such problem can be solved under such and such condition.
And calling rank sexism idiocy is something of a side-step, I think. Yes, it's a stupid argument, but there's lots of stupid arguments that don't require sexism. I don't know of any common argument techniques like that that women use to discredit arguments, like: "You disapprove of my shaving my legs with your razor? Is your penis adequately functional today?"
That, my friend, is a rape culture.
. . . I was raped in college, buddy. I'm pretty sure that I know what rape culture is. You don't need to talk down to me about it.