Rasputin_Vol
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Gender quotas for STEM majors???
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Of course no one likes a quota; it is unfair when a more qualified applicant gets denied. This article, though, raises some interesting (and I think unintended) questions. It says that women aren't well-represented in these jobs because not enough of them are interested, and that may very well be true. Another fair question to ask, however, is why aren't more women interested in math and science than what they currently are, if that is indeed the case? Do we as a society do enough to encourage them being interested in such pursuits (and I don't mean quotas) or are we more concerned with how they look or with them thinking "pretty" thoughts, like in English?
Also, speaking of quotas, we might need to get one in for the men. Fewer and fewer men are graduating college today. Most universities are overwhelmingly female now, so someone might could make the case that men just simply aren't interested in college anymore, kind of like the author of that article did with women and math/science/tech. While it may very well be true, that really isn't the problem. Instead, the correct question to ask is what in the hell is happening to our young men? Why aren't they more motivated, why do they act like kids until they're forty, and why do they play video games much more often than they read a book or inquire into a scientific issue that interest them? In other words, why do they act more like characters from Old Schoolthan actual men? Some of these issues (women not being interested in science; men not being interested in college) are just superficial and not the real issues.
Also, in case anybody didn't know, there are actually some colleges now that have quotas for male applicants. The number of women graduating from college since the 1950s has far outpaced that of their male counterparts, so much so that they outnumber men at a 6 to 4 ratio at must public universities (roughly speaking) and may even outnumber them even more in terms of actual graduation rates. So some universities have actually established quotas for males, accepting more males than are probably more qualified than some spurned female applicants, just like what this potential legislation regarding women and science could do but vice versa.
Let's face it: our culture is doing an injustice to both men and women by not expecting more out of them.
Also, speaking of quotas, we might need to get one in for the men. Fewer and fewer men are graduating college today. Most universities are overwhelmingly female now, so someone might could make the case that men just simply aren't interested in college anymore, kind of like the author of that article did with women and math/science/tech. While it may very well be true, that really isn't the problem. Instead, the correct question to ask is what in the hell is happening to our young men? Why aren't they more motivated, why do they act like kids until they're forty, and why do they play video games much more often than they read a book or inquire into a scientific issue that interest them? In other words, why do they act more like characters from Old Schoolthan actual men? Some of these issues (women not being interested in science; men not being interested in college) are just superficial and not the real issues.
Also, in case anybody didn't know, there are actually some colleges now that have quotas for male applicants. The number of women graduating from college since the 1950s has far outpaced that of their male counterparts, so much so that they outnumber men at a 6 to 4 ratio at must public universities (roughly speaking) and may even outnumber them even more in terms of actual graduation rates. So some universities have actually established quotas for males, accepting more males than are probably more qualified than some spurned female applicants, just like what this potential legislation regarding women and science could do but vice versa.
Let's face it: our culture is doing an injustice to both men and women by not expecting more out of them.
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