Because the way things shake out naturally just doesn’t give the right appearance, and so the central planners will determine what artificial fixes to the dispassionate market dynamic will make that dynamic (unknowingly, of course, it being a spontaneous ordering and all and not a sentient being like those brilliant politicians who know better than such a spontaneous ordering how things should be) less disgustingly and unfairly misogynistic.
Hans Bader explains why that’s a bad idea:
A cold, dispassionate, spontaneous order can never be as caring as an elected official who presumes to fix that spontaneous order to make it more “fair.” Thank goodness these elected officials are looking out for the masses. Whom they break down by skin color and reproductive organs in order to decide where to move them on the chess board of grand social engineering.
Praise be to the State, amen.
Next, they will persuade female bowerbirds to build their own damn bowers. Then everything will be all right.
A female bird needs a male bird like a fish needs a bicycle.
We are all Ozymandias
Or the despairing.
One or the other.
So . . . the net effect is to be less American engineers and research scientists than before, but the ratio of men and women will be more “fair?”
Way to compete in the Global Economy.
The fake platinum blond couldn’t wait to end the segment. Title VIIII blows. Literally. Don’t get me started…
And this new application of Title IX will work out just as well as all of the others.
IOW, libs will pat themselves on the back for their good intentions. Which, after all, is all that matters.
Aren’t they just admitting they believe women can’t hack it in technical fields without outside help?
I remember one of the local radio stations had some woman at the forefront of Title IX activism on. I called in and asked her if you have, say, a golf team, open to men and women alike, how do you count such a team in the context of Title IX? Of course, she was only concerned about the numbers, not opportunity.
Even if most or all of the people who shoot well enough in tryouts to make the team are men, there was equal opportunity for the women to make that team. Come to think about it, women are free to try out for “men’s” sports and occasionally make the team, while “women’s” athletic events often require testing for the disqualifying Y chromosome.
Explain to me again why it’s “fair” to set aside a majority of athletic scholarships in programs that are closed to half the population.
Monster,
There’s your problem right there: the word “fair.”
’tain’t about being “fair.” As I said earlier, it’s about liberals feeling good about themselves.
I really don’t think there are any barriers to women being in IT. It’s a non-issue. Plenty of my students were women. I tended to prefer them as students as opposed to the men, and I encouraged those I thought were doing well to continue.
I’m sure you did, Cranky…
The university administration was just rolling out its “diversity-enhanced” requirements for courses when I was an undergrad. The head of the Physics department asked the new Committee exactly what they would like to see in a “diversity-focused” physics curriculum. They couldn’t give him a concrete answer, insisting that “they were sure he could come up with something.”
So we all learned that Isaac Newton was a differently-abled black lesbian, and then got on with the task of doing math.
I never got involved with a student, McGehee. As far as the undergrad TAs who assisted me goes, I plead the fifth.
Note that I was a graduate TA, not an instructor, but we had labs so we got to know some of the students.
Oh, it’s not necessary to get involved. Merely enjoying the scenery is quite habit-forming.
But if you’re enjoying the scenery through secretly created drill holes or via illicit webcam feeds, it is necessary to not get caught. #Don’tAskMeHowIknow
Heh.
Logic is a tool of the patriarchy. Havn’t you learned anything from Marcotte?
As to the bimbos last point, I don’t remember the girls in elementary school being shuttled out of the room when arithmetic was being taught, is this shielding girls from math a new development?
B Moe —
I said the same thing earlier. At least, I think I did. Scroll, baby!
Shit, it’s not here. I know I wrote it. It had to do with shuttling them off to bake.
I’m losing my shit, people.
No worries, I’ll bet you find a diaper load soon…
The STEMmers sat back and watched the Progs turn their portion of the academy into one all-encompassing never-ending diversity workshop, hoping the ‘gator would get to them last.
hoping the ‘gator would get to them last.
too bad edu.bubble is about to burst
Grad school is a great place to wait out the Recession, though, especially if you are on an assistantship. You get paid for teaching or researching and come out with an advanced degree and no debt or very little.
Choose your field of graduate study wisely, however.
For some fields, the Depression never ends.
Somehow, I simply cannot imagine the male IT community being especially chauvinistic. Rather, I suppose that they’d generally be very amenable to having more females in close proximity. Ladies who understand them.
Because shut up, nasty penis person.
/inclusive, tolerant diversity
This stuff is even getting into Science magazine and it makes me sad.
I like STEM. I got an engineering degree. A very large number of people in my classes were also female and also got their degrees. There IS a little evidence to the idea that what you do (or play with) as a little kid encourages your later habits in life, but it may also be indicative of what you already enjoy and therefore trying to force you into or out of “gender-appropriate” behavior is just a lost cause.
idk how to explain it exactly other than “this is incredibly dumb”.