Daring to Discuss Women in Science

New York Times ^ | June 7, 2010 | John Tierney

[achilles2000]

Most “schoolwork” today is busywork or, worse, counterproductive slop informed by the absurd theories and leftist ideological worldviews coming out of schools of education.

[GrannyAnn]

How do they expect to get more girls into science when both boys and girls are being taught that emotion is the same as reason?

Boys have to be indoctrinated to believe emotion is the same as reason. Girls already have that nailed down.

[Teacher317]

most girls (thanks to schools) are ignored when they are strong in math and science.

I habe to disagree, or at least wonder what schools they're attending. From my experience, girls with quantitative ability are prized and nurtured.

[longtermmemmory]

there is no provision for young fathers to go to school. Usually the boy will be forced out of school at 18 to work as a peon to pay child support at grunt wages instead of going to school to make a better future for himself and his child.

Girls on the other hand have the entire government system as surrogate daddy.

[dsrtsage]

I am so tired of hearing people screech about “there isn’t enough {X} group in {Y} field.”

Nobody is stopping anybody from doing anything.

In engineering school, I was never a fan of the concept of SWE (society of women engineers). I asked my girlfreind (who was an EE student) what it was all about. She said it was basically a place for support, and it encouraged young girls to go into engineering, and etc. I asked her why female engineering students needed support...why can’t they just go to class and do the work like everybody else?

Also in the years since I have worked in the professional world, I can spot the female engineer who was encouraged to go into engineering versus the female engineer who went into engineering because she wanted to, and was self motivated. The ones who were encouraged and coddled are absolutely worthless..less than worthless because all their work always needs to be redone before implementation. The self motivated ones are just as good as anyone else...alot of times, even better because they feel they need to work harder to prove themselves because of the bad rap the coddled engineers have made.

[SunkenCiv]

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