Comments on: Gender-equity cops are after the sciences http://overlawyered.com/2009/10/gender-equity-cops-are-after-the-sciences/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Wed, 15 Feb 2012 01:26:26 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: GregS http://overlawyered.com/2009/10/gender-equity-cops-are-after-the-sciences/comment-page-1/#comment-74354 GregS Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:50:58 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=14404#comment-74354 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. 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.

]]> By: No Name Guy http://overlawyered.com/2009/10/gender-equity-cops-are-after-the-sciences/comment-page-1/#comment-74303 No Name Guy Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:06:54 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=14404#comment-74303 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). 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).

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