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I agree that networking is very important but it must be done face to face.
You cannot successfully network over any online app wothout face to face contact.
Successful networking is built on a trust and can take years to build up properly.
I wouldnt risk my own professional reputation by recommending someone unless I knew them exttremely well for example.
If it is your plan to try and ultimately organise meetups for people then that might be worth considering.
A reasonable viva question would be for you to be asked to describe the overarching point of your PhD.
Your thesis should tell a story and therefore you need to find a way of tying down why you did all the things you talk about. You dont have to include everything in your thesis anyway. I ended up leaving out a couple of things. When I mentioned that during the viva the external examiner seemed to think that was very creditworthy although I am not sure why.
There are two issues I can see here.
Firstly, it's about quality not quantity. Setting targets of pages per hour doesn't seem like a sustainable way to approach your PhD or any other aspect of life. To be honest it sounds a really brutal way to work.
Secondly, Comparing yourself to anyone else is going to drive you insane. This is your PhD, there isn't another one like it. Therefore it is irrelevamt how many papers other people get through.
It might be worth taking a moment to step back here and re-evaluate your thought process because what you are doing sounds damaging to your mental health.
I am not persuaded that any of this "unconscious" bias is anything of the sort. I think it is systematic and deliberate.
I think when a CV arrives from a female in her 20's, many hirers will immediately and willingly form an image in their heads of a woman caked in makeup and fake tan, wearing revealing or tight clothes, with a head full of "girly pish", lacking in confidence and needing constant "nurturing", full of gossip, lacking in work ethic and consumed by her appearance and how she is perceived by others. Most damagingly, hirers will ask themselves about whether she will be a pregnancy risk or already have a kid. Will she be phoning in every third week because her childminder has called out or her kid has a cold. Men simply don't have to fight against any of this crap. The assumption will be that the man will walk in and be no hassle whatsoever.
Why are women biased against other women?
In my opinion it is because they have fought very hard to be accepted themselves and they want to dissociate themselves from those who might damage their reputation. They will only favour women who are like themselves and will kick hard against those who follow the female stereotype.
It's the same reason why some of the most virulent anti-gay protestors turned out to be gay themselves. They try to distance themselves from others like them. Same reason again why the people who hate those on the dole are those who have been there in the past. Humans are very odd.
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