Posted on 09/06/2019 11:58:40 AM PDT by RomanSoldier19
University lowers entry score for female applicants in male-dominated courses University of Technology Sydney makes 10-point adjustment in hope to address gender imbalance in engineering, computing and construction
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If you start out as a “C” student...it doesn’t get any easier.
That will make our bridges safer....../s
Maybe to get more women, women need to be interested.
These commies never consider that. They’d rather force us all into things we don’t like to make it look “fair”.
Speaking as a woman engineer.
If I was to be in that engineering school, it would just make me want to crush the chicks on each and every test. Getting in and staying in are two different things, and, at least when I was in engineering school, grades and test scores were very, very competitive.
Yikes. Wonder how many extra points a handicapped woman of color will get?
That just makes it easier for guys to get in.
As in sports, they need only declare themselves female.
Not happening just in Australia, it is popping up here as well.
This is academia’s equivalent of McNamara’s Project 100000.
What could possibly go wrong?
Baskets lowered to 8 feet for Asian cagers
Such liberal lowering of standards (apparently the only way to get more ‘tards into certain profession) are insulting to my wife.
She did very very well majoring in Chemistry, then a Master’s in Ops Research (using math far far beyond any of the Dimbulb presidential candidates), and had no trouble in her Comp Sci Doctorate. (Oh, by the way, she’s a petite blonde, and fetching.) Ergo, she’s anti-liberal - smart, attractive, and knows very well how to handle forward men.)
Liberals are insulting, crude, and as demonstrated by their “standards” do not live in Lake Wobegon.
Will they RAISE scores in female dominated programs?....................
Someone once told me....years ago....Men don't have a monopoly on brains.
Well... diversity is our strength, you know!
C grade applicants for C grade work on the job. Companies be forewarned.
On the one hand there is nothing wrong with men and women not choosing the same academic course or the same careers in equal numbers. Nothing about human nature says they should.
On the other hand if academics want to get more women involved in one profession or another, the place for those efforts is in the education that leads folks to college, not in lowering college standards so that otherwise unqualified women get in.
That leaves only two things that are legitimate to do, and both are limited and both are in high school. The first one is simply trying to attract more women into high school courses that will make them candidates for STEM courses in college. That attraction should not be lowering standards for them their in high school either. The second is treating the women that get into those courses no different than the men, so that if they do well by their own work effort, they will get accepted into STEM courses in college.
That is legitimate. Making artificial statistical targets on the unnatural pretense that men and women SHOULD be attracted to the same courses in equal numbers is wrong in every way.
Just a totally horrible idea. Cheats those women who can and do make it without having the scales tipped for them, too.
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