Science subtext: Gender parity

Submitted by anthony on Tue, 2012-02-07 15:17

Article here. Excerpt:

'At the White House science fair this morning, President Obama is expected to announce a new education initiative to invest $100 million into training 100,000 new teachers. Specifically, the president is trying to fend off the problem of a shortage of teachers in science, technology, engineering and math — known as STEM — in order to keep the United States competitive in the global marketplace.

While he’s not expected to talk about the dearth of women in the STEM fields, you can be sure that’s part of the larger White House agenda.

In 2007 the National Academies released Beyond Bias and Barriers: Fulfilling the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering — the first step in an effort by the feminist lobby, lawmakers in Congress and several federal agencies to solve the “crisis” of women in science.

Last year the White House released Women in America, a report about the status of women in America today, which addressed the fact that “female students are less well-represented than men in science and technology-related fields, which typically lead to higher paying occupations.”'

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When it all comes down to it, women generally aren't as interested in math and science as men. Women outnumber men in postsecondary institutions, yet men still outnumber women in math and science. Two of my math professors and one of my physics lab TAs are women. You can't tell me women are being discriminated against. Most of them just don't care for math and science as much as their male counterparts.

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Submitted by xtrnl on Thu, 2012-02-09 23:15