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UK: CBI: universities should set 'diversity targets' to get more women into science
Submitted by Mastodon on Sun, 2014-03-09 22:15
Article here. Excerpt:
'Universities should be required to set “diversity targets” to recruit more women into traditional subjects to address a gender divide at the heart of the education system, according to Britain’s biggest business group.
A major report from the Confederation of British Industry will call for drastic measures to boost the number of girls studying disciplines such as physics and maths to a high standard.
The study – to be released this week – will say that all school sixth-forms, colleges and universities should draw up recruitment targets designed to create a more balanced intake on A-level and degree courses.
Girls currently outperform boys at A-level and are more likely to go to university and graduate with a good degree.
But the CBI claim that too many are being shunted onto traditionally “feminine” subjects such as the arts and insist changes are needed to reverse long-standing gender stereotypes among teachers, pupils and parents.'
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And if not enough girls/women can be cajoled, bribed, etc.?
What then? Do a Title IX and cap the number of males allowed to go into STEM study programs?
At this point I put nothing past anyone with P.C. gender obsession on the brain.
If not enough girls apply,
If not enough girls apply, they will think to themselves the problem is worse then they thought...there must be some intense gender descrimination going on...and they will up their efforts until they get the results they want. They will never accept biology for influencing personal preference of career paths. Biology does not exist to a feminist mind.