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.'"

Comments

Re:How about the reverse quotas?

[retchdog]

The best piece of evidence yet that women are more honest than men...

Re:How about the reverse quotas?

[sir fer]

try working in a female-dominated environment sometime. It is hell. Decisions take ages to get made and then get made poorly, volunteer projects start spring up like mushrooms on a turd, HR depts flourish and the quality and integrity of the organization generally goes to hell. Mind you I look forward to seeing the new colour-scheme for the space shuttle, as well as extra cargo space for chocolate and other feminine "needs"

Re:How about the reverse quotas?

[neonmonk]

Yeah! Who the fuck does this fucking guy think he fucking is! I mean Jesus Fucking Shit Christ how dare that cunt sully this family loving proviolence website with his immoral and disgusting sexual lechery!

Fuck!

Re:How about the reverse quotas?

[SerpentMage]

You don't get it do you? Let's turn things around. A guy is a body builder and dress in shirts and outfits that show his muscles, do you do anything?

Well women would like to dress nice and look good. If she happens to be good looking well then that's her bonus. She can't help it, now can she? I mean if a woman has naturally large breasts what should she do against it? Press them against her body?

The problem is that you were oogling at her and that bothers her! She was annoyed that you could not treat her as a person, and instead just resorted to looking at her boobs! In other words a sexist oink!