"The following are some of the committee's key findings that underscore its call to action:
> Studies have not found any significant biological differences between men and women in performing science and mathematics that can account for the lower representation of women in academic faculty and leadership positions in S&T fields.
> Compared with men, women faculty members are generally paid less and promoted more slowly, receive fewer honors, and hold fewer leadership positions. These discrepancies do not appear to be based on productivity, the significance of their work, or any other performance measures, the report says.
> Measures of success underlying performance-evaluation systems are often arbitrary and frequently applied in ways that place women at a disadvantage. "Assertiveness," for example, may be viewed as a socially unacceptable trait for women but suitable for men. Also, structural constraints and expectations built into academic institutions assume that faculty members have substantial support from their spouses. Anyone lacking the career and family support traditionally provided by a "wife" is at a serious disadvantage in academe, evidence shows. Today about 90 percent of the spouses of women science and engineering faculty are employed full time. For the spouses of male faculty, it is nearly half. "
Now obviously a lot of slashdotters are single men, but even single men have sisters or maybe even friends who are girls. Slashdotters even hold out the hope of one day having sex with a real live woman, and possibly even having a family.
Now imagine if the supreme court were not permitted to safeguard your "life, liberty or property" because Ron Paul's HR 4379 had explicitly forbidden it in matters of "sexual practices, orientation, or reproduction".
This means that states can now legislate against contraception, abortion and consensual sex. It means that the definition of "privacy" as seen by the courts under the fifth and fourteenth amendements is valid to give you the right to "to marry, establish a home and bring up children", but not to decide how and when to conceive those children.
In short, Ron Paul is a very strange and impractical obstetrician and an even stranger kind of politician. I certainly wouldn't vote for him.
You can have free flowing or dammed tidal. The one in France is dammed iirc, however http://bluenergy.com/ uses free flowing. In response to some other posters, tidal power probably won't do much to fish. The turbines spin much more slowly than wind turbines because water is much denser than air. This means that little fish can just swim through, while larger fish just go around them (if there is no dam)
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"The following are some of the committee's key findings that underscore its call to action:
> Studies have not found any significant biological differences between men and women in performing science and mathematics that can account for the lower representation of women in academic faculty and leadership positions in S&T fields.
> Compared with men, women faculty members are generally paid less and promoted more slowly, receive fewer honors, and hold fewer leadership positions. These discrepancies do not appear to be based on productivity, the significance of their work, or any other performance measures, the report says.
> Measures of success underlying performance-evaluation systems are often arbitrary and frequently applied in ways that place women at a disadvantage. "Assertiveness," for example, may be viewed as a socially unacceptable trait for women but suitable for men. Also, structural constraints and expectations built into academic institutions assume that faculty members have substantial support from their spouses. Anyone lacking the career and family support traditionally provided by a "wife" is at a serious disadvantage in academe, evidence shows. Today about 90 percent of the spouses of women science and engineering faculty are employed full time. For the spouses of male faculty, it is nearly half. "
Now imagine if the supreme court were not permitted to safeguard your "life, liberty or property" because Ron Paul's HR 4379 had explicitly forbidden it in matters of "sexual practices, orientation, or reproduction".
This means that states can now legislate against contraception, abortion and consensual sex. It means that the definition of "privacy" as seen by the courts under the fifth and fourteenth amendements is valid to give you the right to "to marry, establish a home and bring up children", but not to decide how and when to conceive those children.
In short, Ron Paul is a very strange and impractical obstetrician and an even stranger kind of politician. I certainly wouldn't vote for him.
You can have free flowing or dammed tidal. The one in France is dammed iirc, however http://bluenergy.com/ uses free flowing.
In response to some other posters, tidal power probably won't do much to fish. The turbines spin much more slowly than wind turbines because water is much denser than air. This means that little fish can just swim through, while larger fish just go around them (if there is no dam)