Gender-equity cops are after the sciences

by Walter Olson on October 27, 2009

Warns Stuart Taylor, Jr. Earlier here, etc.

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1 No Name Guy 10.27.09 at 3:06 pm

What’s good for the gander, is good for the goose.

So long as the number of ladies in female dominated fields is restricted so that the guys can have 1/2 the slots, fine by me.

But then again, I suspect those pushing this notion of discrimination in the hard sciences would find that notion of ‘equity’ hard to swallow.

(In my aero engineering class in the late 80’s / early 90’s there were 4 gals and 50 something guys admitted – at graduation, after the usual attrition it was about 11:1 ratio).

2 GregS 10.28.09 at 10:50 am

Makes sense to me! We all know that the first consideration of a student’s potential to excel in crystallography or astrophysics or paleontology is whether or not too many of his classmates have the same kind of junk between their legs as he does.

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