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| New study into lack of women in Tech: It's NOT the men's fault |
| 2015-08-12 |
| h/t Instapundit A new study into causes of the scarcity of women in technical and scientific fields says that it is not discrimination by men in the field keeping the ladies away. Nor is it a repugnance felt by women for possibly dishevelled or unhygienic male nerds. No, the reason that young women don't train in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) areas - and thus, don't find themselves with jobs at tech companies, in IT etc - is quite simply that they mostly don't know enough maths to do those courses. "It is all about the mathematical content of the field. Girls not taking math coursework early on in middle school and high school are set on a different college trajectory than boys," says economics prof Donna Ginther. Ginther and a colleague, Shulamit Kahn, examined statistics on young women's maths qualifications and mathematical requirements for college courses in America. Put simply, they found that absence of women studying a given course can be accounted for simply by the fact that most young women don't know much maths. An interesting note: most of the work on gender differences I'm familiar with is done by women---maybe not so surprising, given the society we live in. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #10 Don't know, or aren't interested??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2015-08-12 21:59 |
| #9 Actually that is what I head a woman say here in France. O commented her they were very few engineer women quiete simply because thre very few of them in "prepatory classes" (in France yjere is a compatitive exam for admittance in enegineering scholls and you prepare, it by studying ùaths and phusis for about thirty hours a week for two years in "prepatory classes". If, say, you go to theater that means other people are studting and overcoming you). She answered me "that is because they can't take the inhuman system of teâtory cmasses". Inhuman or not, that system was designed well before anyone though of women engineers, so it wasn't designed agsint them. It was designed for getting the best of the best. But answer from that woman amounted at; "Let's adapt the standards for women". Just like others want to adpt the standards for Rangers and to heel if they no longer can climb thirty yards high Pointe du Hoc and D-Day ends in a bloody failure. |
| Posted by: JFM 2015-08-12 17:28 |
| #8 Well the solution is obvious. We must lower the math bar so more women can enter the field! Just legislate the value of pi to be exacty 3 and the value of e to be exactly 2. Easy peasy... |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2015-08-12 17:04 |
| #7 "Math is hard":school-girl Barbie |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2015-08-12 16:50 |
| #6 I am now working in the research building at the chemical company I work for. There is a large number of Asian women who work there. Just on my observation it's close to 50/50 men and women with probably 80/20 Asian women over non-Asian. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2015-08-12 12:59 |
| #5 What I told about feminazis can be applied to all the left. While we are busy at real work they dedicate themselves to convince/brainwash people into their ideology. That is why they are winning. Now I am not advocating we no longer take _real_ jobs but we should spend less time watching football and more at activism. By the way readers could be interested by this https://feministbrainwash.wordpress.com/tag/historical-revisionism/. Written by a woman. |
| Posted by: JFM 2015-08-12 12:11 |
| #4 The Left can not fathom 'human free will'. When you have no god but yourself, and you believe humans just another trainable animal that should be obedient to you, that should not be surprising. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-08-12 10:24 |
| #3 Well the solution is obvious. We must lower the math bar so more women can enter the field! /idiot lefty |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2015-08-12 09:53 |
| #2 My fear is that the feds will start to enforce Title IX in STEM |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2015-08-12 09:49 |
| #1 While we are doing maths, relativistic physics, civil engineering and IT, feminazis are publishing studies on gender differences and whining about not getting Tech jobs. |
| Posted by: JFM 2015-08-12 08:32 |