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IZOLDA TAKÁCS: THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY
gender asymmetries in Wikipedia. In the research guoted by the academic
Péter Csermely among others, it was proven that "in the Wikipedia articles of
women, the negative parts of their biographies are described with more specific
phrases than the positive parts. In the biographies of men, it is the other way
around." Our assessment of reality is strongly affected by the media and the
narratives by which they share information take the place of the whole truth.
Along the arguments of the analysis comparing female and male biographies,
it becomes apparent that in the case of women, a biography is more likely to
include themes in connection with family, relationships and sexuality, as well
as putting any mistakes and failings they made on display more than in the
case of men. This is one of the causes, as mentioned earlier, of the so-called
glass-ceiling effect as understood by the cited authors.'**
This labelling regarding women puts the female scientist figure in the
unsolicited position of a priori provisionality. While the man imbues himself
with self-sufficient essentiality, the female subject-construct achieves this by
resembling others and comes to be seen as such in the view of males. Because
of this, as in other fields, the fading career of female scientists eventually ends
in their disappearing in uneventfulness. Unfortunately the set frames of this
present chapter do not leave sufficient room to unfold in detail the philosophical
and social traditions behind the phenomenon, but mentioning them at least
in passing is indispensable among reviewing the facts and data. But of course,
we will discuss this issue further in context of the semi-structured interviews.
The member election of 2016 took place by the rules of procedure that were
approved by the 183th general assembly of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
The 6th paragraph of the approved document, “Rules of electing academics”
contains the fundamental principles of electing academics, its order of procedures
and the formal and compendiary requirements of the process of giving
recommendations, as well as the rules of nominating.*
The first paragraph is about the number of the members, giving an exhaustive
list regarding the frame numbers of the full members, the fellow members and
the honorary members.
The Principles 1. § states: (1) In the XL-th law of 1994 about the Hungarian
Academy of Sciences, paragraph 6 states that the academic members are made
up of full and correspondent members (henceforth “regular members” as a
summary), and external and honorary members. (2) Academics are elected by
183 Csermely: A nők tudományos előmenetele, 624.
184 Wagner, C. — Graells-Garrido, E. — Garcia, D. — Menczer, F. (2016): Women through the glass
ceiling: gender asymmetries in Wikipedia, https://epjdatascience.springeropen.com/
articles/10.1140/epjds/s13688-016-0066-4 (accessed 30 May 2017).
185 http://mta.hu/data/dokumentumok/hatteranyagok/akademikusvalasztas/2016_evi_
akademikusvalasztas_elj_szab.pdf (accessed 30 May 2017).
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