[NinoFan]

In his article, Barres offers several personal anecdotes from both sides of the gender divide to prove his own hypothesis that prejudice plays a much bigger role than genes in preventing women from reaching their potential on university campuses and in government laboratories

Does anyone else see just how unscientific this is?

[burzum]

And men shortage in nursing and education is blamed on what?

[muawiyah]

Groom those girls to be line-backers and you'll get a whole lot more engineers eh?!

ROTFLMAO

Is this professor going to get yet a second sex change?

[AntiGuv]

The one that rankles him most dates from his undergraduate days at MIT, where as a young woman in a class dominated by men he was the only student to solve a complicated math problem.

It would be 'wrong' for me to idly point out that, as a transexual, he would claim to have always had the mind of a man, although it was in the body of a woman, so I won't.. ;^)

[Donald Meaker]

And the reason why women porno stars get paid higher salaries than men is also due to bias.

So, sould we lower their salary? Should we requre all videos be packages with even ratios of each performers?

And fat people! Should we require fat people to be represented in porno videos, in direct proportion to their ratio of the general population.

That is about the level of logic of the desire that we should add more stupid people in science, to meet a fixed ratio of women.

[mathprof]

"The one that rankles him most dates from his undergraduate days at MIT, where as a young woman in a class dominated by men he was the only student to solve a complicated math problem."

This may or may not be true.  (S)he might have had a biggotted professor.  Moreover, this happened in the 1970's and much has changed since then.  I would be shocked, very shocked if something like this would happen now. 

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where as a young woman in a class dominated by men he she was the only student to solve a complicated math problem. The professor said a boyfriend must have done the work for her, according to Barres.

First off Barbara, no amount of surgery or hormones will ever make you a man.

Second, good for you to solve that math problem.

Third, now get your head out of where the sun doesn't shine you freak.

[SteveMcKing]

"I feel like I have a responsibility to speak out," he said."

I feel like I have a responsibility to laugh at the living spectacle that you make of yourself. "Ma'am."

[A. Pole]

What about chess competitions?

[Martins kid]

Professors and high school teachers do treat women and men differently. I seen this for years. It takes thick skin to work around the bias. Like Ginger Rogers we have to dance as well backwards and in heels.

[garyhope]

""I've lived in the shoes of a woman and I've lived in the shoes of a man."

So, his closet is half Florsheim's and half Manolo Blaniks?

Oi vey, decisions, decisions, decisions.

I wonder what his underwear drawer looks like. On second thought, I don't wanna know.

[A. Pole]

I've lived in the shoes of a woman and I've lived in the shoes of a man. It's caused me to reflect on the barriers women face."

And tomorrow she will be Napoleon.

[oceanview]

there is no shortage of anyone in the sciences.

because India and China have lots of people, and that's where the job growth in tech is.

[The_Reader_David]

Actually, on the NPR show This American Life, there was another female-to-male transexual, whose testimony supported Summers' view: s/he reported that upon beginning testosterone injections, among other interesting effects--suddenly becoming a jerk around women, for instance--s/he suddenly became interested in physics. It's Episode 220 from 30 August 2005.

I have no doubt that 30 or so years ago an MIT professor could easily have made the reported remark. But after decades of NSF funding for women only projects since, and especially in the face of testimony to the contrary cited above, I think the assertion that the paucity of women in science is due to bias has gotten a bit thin. Try due to not being willing to do the series of postdocs needed for a top-flight career right when you want to have children.

[Jim Noble]

Woman shortage in science blamed on bias

Nah, they're just not that into it...

[puppypusher]

This story is a lot of BS.Just go to a major university affiliated hospital and you'll find there are more females becoming doctors then ever before.Where I work the females are out-numbering the males in many specialties.It won't be long before they run the place and that may not be a bad thing.

[Jim Noble]

his unique vantage point

What's that?

That she's psychotic, with a serious delusion about her body?

THAT vantage point?

[Incorrigible]

Girls just want to have Sums!

 

[rbg81]

Most science programs today (especially hard science, like physics, math, and CS) fall all over themselves trying to attract and retain women. If you're a woman, and can manage a C or above, you are flooded with job offers and opportunties in those fields. Even in the face of this, many women totally ignore these fields. And then they whine about a wage disparity.

[Pharmboy]

I DEMAND to know why there aren't more Amish in the NBA. Oh--I do have a few anecdotes to show that bias was indeed involved.