Science?
The misunderstanding is strong there.
Who is approving this crap?
” Carrigan’s research focuses on how to “transform the powers of technology to advance social justice.”
Scary in a fascist kind of way.
“social justice.”
Pull the grant.
Next.
5.56mm
Stupidity reigns. Women who are interested in STEM will pursue it. Those who are not interested will pursue other things. Why must we PAY to interest the uninterested?
The education-industrial complex bubble is huge. It supports a huge, ideological, parasitical leftist political base, all on the backs of Federal Government spending, and above all, sky-high tuitions and massive student debt.
It is crying out for reform.
The American taxpayers are paying half a million dollars to underwrite their own demise.
“The National Science Foundation awarded a half a million dollars to an “intersectional feminisms” professor to study how to recruit more women into STEM fields.”
Either Elizabeth Harrington or the NSF needs to get with the program.
Our racist, sexist overlords have added “A” for “Arts” to STEM.
‘Intersectional Feminisms’ is the mother of all nothing burgers, sucking both IQ points from this so-called “professor”.
It’s long past time for us to institute “Brain Shaming” for this collection of people for whom even fifth grade level classes are an un-winnable challenge.
Its easy...stop wasting young children time teaching them useless nonsense and teach real science.
Where is my 500k?
The Bible calls these kind of women “contentious”
Woman was created to be a “helper” . . . of course women pursuing that kind of ideology thinks the Bible and Christianity is nonsense anyway
hey they ate the shrimp running track!
How, precisely, is this broad qualified to even comment on STEM fields? Specifically, ECS.
“intersectional feminisms”
They’re just making stuff up.
Government’s been picking the winners and losers since ‘bout 1860.
Yawn!
Somebody should file a FOIA to find out who the reviewers were and the Director who approved it.
If you are a REAL glutton for punishment, enjoy the abstract below (and I thought the article was bad enough)
ABSTRACTEngineering and Computer Science (ECS) shapes our social, political and economic environments, yet struggles to attract and retain a diversity of practitioners. Why does ECS remain stubbornly segregated when it comes to gender parity? The goal of this CAREER project is to use ethnography to compare subfields of ECS in which women have different levels of participation. It investigates the relationship between cultural values, norms and practices that 1) presume practitioners from dominant groups are more competent than practitioners from underrepresented groups; and 2) privilege the technical dimensions of computing over the social ones. The uneven participation of women across ECS subfields suggests that subfield cultural values and norms vary. To examine this variation, this project focuses primarily on the experiences of female faculty members because they are a critical population that shape the next generation of ECS practitioners, have a long-standing relationships with their disciplinary subfields, and may have experiences that could lend critical insights into the social/technical divide. The project's findings articulate and forge pathways toward broadening participation in ECS because they inform learning modules and course curricula to educate students, faculty, and leaders in academia about the benefits of diversity and transformations required to foster welcoming environments for women to participate in ECS with equal opportunities, resources and regard. Due to the prominence and impact of ECS, identifying gender inequities in the field and interrupting them will help welcome and retain more talented women from a range of intersectional identities. Harnessing the power of diversity in this way will positively contribute to all domains on which computing impinges.
This CAREER project is a comparative analysis of the impact of subfield culture on women's representation in ECS. It deconstructs theoretical assumptions undergirding ECS practices to understand how complex, intersectional biases disenfranchise women from the field. To yield new knowledge useful in efforts to broaden participation, this CAREER project systematically conceptualizes how labor segregation may relate to an ideological hierarchy between the social and technical dimensions of computing and influence cultural exclusions along intersecting vectors of gender and race. Using a theory-driven, interdisciplinary research approach that integrates gender and racial equity research, anthropology and science and technology studies, this CAREER project works to: 1) Develop and refine a theoretical model of change in ECS to combat the covert and overt mechanisms that marginalize women; 2) Describe and analyze epistemic bias emerging from ideologies that consider empirical data superior to qualitative data and trivialize socially applied research in ECS; 3) Identify and assess elements of culture in ECS that reproduce or challenge inequitable power relations; 4) Describe women's differential experiences in ECS subfields along vectors of race, ethnicity, and gender identity; 5) Develop and analyze educational interventions into ECS culture that spring from an original method integrating ethnography and case study methods to both interrupt the reproduction of dominant class rule and to study the beliefs and power relations of computing communities. Not only does this project contribute a novel qualitative theory of cultural change in ECS, it also tests innovative methods to better elucidate who and what counts in the field and why. Further, it creates highly adaptable and sustainable techniques that provide opportunities for engineers to practice recognizing and responding to bias in social dynamics and articulating means of institutional change in communion with their peers. Finally, this project provides much needed anthropological theory to the problem of women's underrepresentation in ECS to advance inclusive educational practices that support and capitalize on the aptitudes of underrepresented groups. This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.
NSF should adopt a simple written review rule: ANY proposal containing ANY of the following words or phrases is automatically rejected and the proposer is banned for life from receiving an NSF grant:
Women will never succeed in equal measure in the sciences as long as they make other choices. I would be more respectful of a study that acknowledged those other choices.
My daughter scored 5 in AP Calculus and chose a telecommunications arts degree and ultimately home school motherhood. Her first daughter is pursuing a career in animation. Her second daughter wants to dance. Another girl (8 now) might be showing a knack for and interest in science or engineering. We shall see.