I agree that this should be its own field! I’ve noticed that I will often conflate the two for ease of speaking/writing. I feel similarly when I need to refer to folks that are not men and instead of saying women/nonbinary/trans, I will just say “women” for short. I don’t like that I do this and have reflected on it extensively. I think it is because my brain is wired to prioritize getting my original thought out there instead of being sensitive to the nuances of a group’s identity and structure. However, there is a lot that can be done to make the distinction more automatic and less cognitively demanding through setting/reinforcing social norms and environmental structure.
I think having a “global development” button and category on the EA forum would be a low effort way to kick it off as a social norm and make it easier for people to start separating the two in their minds.
I think it’s also a much more tractable switch than with gender since often when we refer to social groups, we usually want to be more inclusive. In EA NYC, we have a subgroup meeting for Women and Nonbinaries of EA NYC which we just have to abbreviate as “WANBEANY” and even that is not optimally inclusive because what if a trans man wants to join or what if a trans femme person doesn’t want to identify as either woman or nonbinary?
In the case of global health and global development, it would be good to talk about the two more independently since they have very different approaches to the same problem.
I agree that this should be its own field! I’ve noticed that I will often conflate the two for ease of speaking/writing. I feel similarly when I need to refer to folks that are not men and instead of saying women/nonbinary/trans, I will just say “women” for short. I don’t like that I do this and have reflected on it extensively. I think it is because my brain is wired to prioritize getting my original thought out there instead of being sensitive to the nuances of a group’s identity and structure. However, there is a lot that can be done to make the distinction more automatic and less cognitively demanding through setting/reinforcing social norms and environmental structure.
I think having a “global development” button and category on the EA forum would be a low effort way to kick it off as a social norm and make it easier for people to start separating the two in their minds.
I think it’s also a much more tractable switch than with gender since often when we refer to social groups, we usually want to be more inclusive. In EA NYC, we have a subgroup meeting for Women and Nonbinaries of EA NYC which we just have to abbreviate as “WANBEANY” and even that is not optimally inclusive because what if a trans man wants to join or what if a trans femme person doesn’t want to identify as either woman or nonbinary?
In the case of global health and global development, it would be good to talk about the two more independently since they have very different approaches to the same problem.