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The Push For Quotas For Women In Science
mlimber writes "The NYTimes has a story about how Congress has quietly begun to press for an equal number of women in the hard sciences and engineering under Title IX, which is best known for mandating numerical equality for boys' and girls' sports for institutions that accept federal funding. The problem is, the article says, it is not merely that women face discrimination from male colleagues, though that is often true, or that they are discouraged from pursuing these fields. Rather, women with aptitude in these areas often simply have other interests and so pursue their education and careers in other fields like law, education, or biology. Opponents of this plan, including many women in scientific fields, say implementing sex-based quotas will actually be detrimental because it will communicate that the women can't compete on even terms with men and will be 'devastating' to the quality of science 'if every male-dominated field has to be calibrated to women's level of interest.'"
Now they will actually see some girls.
Love many, trust a few, do harm to none.
We must force women to enter careers in hard sciences and engineering.
Oliver's law of assumed responsibility: If you're seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it.
You realize that it's the lycra they're advertising, not the chicks, right?
More chicks? Sounds like an excellent idea.
Currently any woman can get(or give) a-head simply by batting an eyelash to the boss while her male peers toil long hours unnoticed.
Mandatory female quotas would be a godsend -- they'd have to compete not only against ugly fat guys, but against themselves! It'd be a most entertaining fight for the hottest, most attention-gettingest queen of them all. The males would win either way as they could heed the Middle East exit strategy that never was(that is, to stand back and let the others kill each other).
Endless, entertaining gossip and ever-shrinking outfits would load a volatile powder keg whose explosion would culminate in a sweaty break-room battle with girl-on-girl action, strategically torn clothing, perhaps some spare jello from the fridge, and only one victor - the men!
Yeh, Like Law and Medicine.
I don't think you've ever actually had a conversation with a real female human.
PROTIP: Real women don't actually behave like girls in porn, anime, or action flicks.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
And yes I really am a woman. I really am
Outrageous claims are made on /. every day. Given the demographics of this site, you will have do to more the words. To borrow from Shakespeare, me thinks the carbonunit doth protest to much...however, on the off chance I may be wrong, I am a mature minded nerd with actual outside interests besides computers. Now tell us all you have a husband or boyfriend otherwise I'd like to finally claim first post!
Life is a great ride, the vehicle doesn't matter
And for the record ... I've lacked a penis.
Do you tell this to everybody? I'm assuming you are not a woman because most women don't feel that they need to inform everyone that they do not have certain organs that the species in general possesses.
Have you considered that perhaps you've just lost it? Feel around for a while and you might find it again. Good luck in your search!
And what about stewardesses / Flight Attendants? Are they going to take the fun out of flying too? (sorry, but there is no joy in being buckled in an aluminum tube at 40000 feet surrounded by non-hetero males wearing uniforms). And what about Playboy/Penthouse? Are they going to enforce quota's there too? Isn't there anything sacred in this world?
It only takes one man to change the Wisdom of the Crowd to Tyranny of the Masses.
Okay, so let's get this straight. You had an addadicktome after having a lopitoffofme ...
His joke was funnier than yours.
Well we would like to employ you to fill our quotas because you are a black, violant, terroristic, drug dealing lesbian.
Would you consider becoming jewish?
you're also a fucking idiot, like most gay people.
Well, no, that's just you being stupid. The grandparent is a self-described liberal, so he probably has all sorts of incorrect opinions, but most of what he stated in his post is not unreasonable.
By the way, there's plenty of valid reasons to post anonymously. Abject cowardice isn't one of them. Hey, the gay liberal was braver than you!
Okay, so we have gender equality in science. You've raised racial equality. What about sexual orientation too?
The way I see it, we now need the industry's population to be enforced to:
12.5% - Gay, white, male
12.5% - Gay, white, female
12.5% - Gay, non-white, male
12.5% - Gay, non-white, female
12.5% - Straight, white, male
12.5% - Straight, white, female
12.5% - Straight, non-white, male
12.5% - Straight, non-white, female
But what if we get age equality in there too? Do we now need 6.25% segments with old and young of gay/straight, black/white, male/female? What about transgendered people? Do they get a slice of the pie? I'd also want to include people from the US versus not from the US. Oh, and don't forget people with Down's Syndrome.
At this rate, there'd only be one guy sitting in the computer science department with 99 vacancies going. The problem is, legally they can't discriminate when posting job vacancies, so how will the quota be filled? Who will find that gay Chinese hermaphrodite needed to fill a 1%?