Quotas Limiting Male Science Enrollment: The New Liberal War on Science
22nd July 2012
Earlier, writing in Newsweek, President Obama celebrated the fact that 25 percent fewer men than women graduate from college, calling it a “great accomplishment” for America. Ironically, he lamented the fact that a smaller gender disparity — 17 percent fewer women attending college than men — had once existed before Title IX was implemented. To Obama, gender disparities are only bad when they disfavor women. Under his strange idea of equality, equality means men losing out to women.
Based on a campaign promise Obama made to feminist groups in October 2008, Sommers foresaw the Obama Administration moving to artificially cap male enrollment in math and science classes to achieve gender proportionality — the way that Title IX currently caps male participation in intercollegiate athletics. The result could be a substantial reduction in the number of scientists graduating from America’s colleges and universities.
Since a college cannot force a woman to go into math or science, the only way for a college to satisfy a gender quota will be to cut the number of male math and science students, by turning male students away from their favorite subject.
July 23rd, 2012 at 14:23
And Title IX couldn’t be applied to a nicer bunch. But if the STEM professors don’t want Title IX applied to their departments, perhaps a different system of social justice can be applied: for every vote by every STEM professor to apply quotas, limitations on enrollment by skin color or sex, et. al., one white male STEM professor must retire at half-pay. When the white males are exhausted, a male of any race will suffice.
The STEM professors were happy to apply social justice to the other departments and so have destroyed scholarship and the humanities for generations. For what they have wrought on others should be wrought on them. Let them live in the hell of their own making.