Gender parity trumps excellence in science?

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'Nowhere in the entire 252-page report is there an inkling that anything but men and culture might be to blame for this sorry state of affairs. Nowhere is there any speculation as to why this gender imbalance exists in every developed country – including those with better child care. Nowhere is there a hint that one reason more women aren’t entering these fields is that maybe they don’t want to.
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We now have plenty of evidence showing that even as equality of opportunity has grown, women continue to express different career preferences than men. Even women who are great at math are more likely to be fascinated by other people than by terabytes, ohms and quarks. But men who are great at math generally prefer to devote their careers to small rotating objects, not kindergarteners.
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Is gender parity more important than excellence in science? Some people think so. In the U.S., there’s widespread talk of extending Title IX to STEM fields. Title IX is the legislation that requires colleges to fund women’s sports at the same level as men’s. Because women have far less interest in playing sports than men do, Title IX dealt a heavy blow to men’s athletics and sent colleges scrambling to assemble women’s volleyball teams so that their funds wouldn’t be cut off. Saner heads worry that Title IX might do the same thing to academic research.'