Anonymous witchy_salem 2w

basically NPS SUCKS at holding accused harassers accountable and will often promote, reassign to another location, or allow them to resign/retire to avoid being fired and so it won’t go on their record. also a lot of women who are assaulted/harassed often don’t report because of fear of retaliation.

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Anonymous witchy_salem 2w

one lady said she believes shes on some sort of hiring blacklist in the state where she reported the harassment, she can be hired in every other state EXCEPT for the one she reported in.

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Anonymous witchy_salem 2w

and apparently the harassment is so common that it’s like normalized, women are told in the field that it’s just “the unfortunate reality for women in (insert NPS or U.S. Forest service job)”

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Anonymous witchy_salem 2w

AND THEN!!!!!!!!!! women are something discriminated against and aren’t considered for fieldwork research in backcountry because of womanly things.

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Anonymous witchy_salem 2w

sometimes*

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Anonymous #1 2w

my major emphasis area sort of revolves around getting hired in NPS (i’m not doing that though) and it was a massive rabbit hole i fell down

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Anonymous #1 2w

and now that a lot of people have been let go, there’s even LESS support / ways to report which doesn’t seem like a lot cause they’re not listened to anyways but now it’s somehow worse

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Anonymous #2 2w

this is pretty interesting, not sure why my friend who wanted to be a ranger never mentioned this to me

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Anonymous #2 2w

it’s very swept under the rug from what i could tell

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Anonymous orangepopcornn 2w

i also!!! learned about the yosemite school of field research (i definitely got the name wrong) that was opened in 1925 and it was basically meant to train naturalists and fieldwork based jobs, even though they let women do the school and trainings- they weren’t ever hired. 😐 and it was often a thing of “we don’t hire women” 🤨 then why the fuck u letting women attend the school

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Anonymous witchy_salem 2w

bruh

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Anonymous orangepopcornn 2w

i’m so sorry that’s literally the only thing in my brain to respond with💀 but this is genuinely so interesting thank you for informing us

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Anonymous orangepopcornn 2w

women would also be not hired BUT the NPS would use their research and information as their own 😐😐😐 which isn’t entirely surprising but god damn

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Anonymous witchy_salem 2w

it’s giving rosalind franklin my icon woman

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Anonymous #4 2w

no fr

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Anonymous #4 2w

i can definitely share it after class! it’s not a very long presentation but i can slap the slides down with speaker notes + additional comments

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Anonymous witchy_salem 2w

you’re so hot

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Anonymous witchy_salem 2w

i also did a very brief overview of wildlife rehab jobs and discrimination in that which 😐😐

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Anonymous orangepopcornn 2w

kiss me 🤌

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Anonymous witchy_salem 2w

gladly

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Anonymous witchy_salem 2w

yes please!!! this is honestly the first time i’m hearing of all of this. i have heard of the government cuts from earlier this year but that’s about it

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Anonymous #4 2w

i can also talk about government cuts 👍 i didn’t include it in my presentation but my friends, professors, and i have been keeping close eyes on it / i talked about it a lot when it was first happening

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Anonymous witchy_salem 2w

i lied but if people still want to see it i can definitely post it :) i also have been doing a bunch of research in my own time and its been slay

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