Posted on 04/18/2006 10:50:33 AM PDT by ncountylee
Assistant Education Secretary for Civil Rights Stephanie Monroe has announced that the Bush Administration is investigating universities that have fewer women in science and math programs than feminists would like. We are more than five years into the Bush presidency, but it appears that Bill Clinton's feminist policies are still in force.
Is President George W. Bush a feminist, or is he just a typical gentleman who is intimidated by feminists and unable to cope with their unreasonable demands, tantrums and rudeness? When it comes to public policy and personnel appointments, the result is the same.
The gender police have already ruined college sports for many men, forcing the senseless elimination of 171 wrestling teams to reduce the overall proportion of men to women on college athletic teams. Fresh from that attack on masculinity, the new target is math and science departments.
Universities know all too well how this game is played and have every reason to fear the worst. Just one feminist lawsuit can have a devastating effect on most universities, both financially and in adverse publicity.
An internal Title IX regulation invented by Carter and Clinton administration feminists established the "proportionality" of men and women enrolled in a college as the bean-counting goal for the proportion of men and women on sports teams. If the percentage of men on sports teams is too high, then the college can expect to be sued for alleged gender discrimination, even though men are far more interested in sports than women.
If the college loses, it must pay the feminist lawyers' attorney's fees. This encourages lawsuits and has resulted in million-dollar paydays at the expense of schools that rely on donations to stay afloat.
The Bush Administration is getting ready to apply this same mindless mentality to math and science departments,
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And not too many people recall that her name was Miers.
But I thought that was one of the Republican priorities in a former election cycle, and now that they have the House, Senate and the Presidency.......?
LOL. Don't get me started.
Dumbed Down Cops (Bush Justice Department's Political Correctness Insanity Alert)
It has nothing to do with him being a feminist hes just a liberal rino pos that is enslaved to the PC mindset. What exactly does he propose to fix this shortfall of women in math and science? Kidnap them from other classes and force them at gunpoint to attend the math and science classes against thier will?
ping the liberal democrat that is in the oval office is at it again
Schlafly's column was posted on Townhall.com yesterday. Talk about being behind the curve.
Thanks for finding that.
What would it take? Living in a different Country. It would never happen in the Country we live in today.
Someone please remind me of the difference between the GOP and Democrats? It's so easy to forget these days.
When I was in grad school, I wound up being the student rep for the department and was in on the hiring process. It amazed me that for one professorship in chemistry, we had over 200 applications and the top 5 were all men. The university admin screamed bloddy murder that there were no women on the short list so we had to add one and interview her. The best one was about #152 out of 200. The comparison between the top candidates and her was stark. The top candidates had each over 200 papers and won significant international recognition. THe woman was a post doc with about 15 papers and no awards. Yet the university administrastion put incredible pressure on the department to hire her. The dept cahir reminded the administrators that the chemistry department brough in millions of dollars in grants every year and the top candidates would be bringing those dollars. The post doc would likely bring in a small grant, maybe enough for a grad student and thats all. When $'s started talking, the PC left the building.
I'm shocked that the administration didn't insist on hiring #152 anyway in the name of diversity.
Thanks for the correction.
Just a reminder that what was once a big deal recedes into the past VERY fast...
Further evidence of RINO-ism run-amok.
Title IX has been a catastrophe for the "brain assets" of the united states.
It has discouraged the best and brightest in favor of the quota queen and mediocre.
This is why career bureacrats must be purged.
If a person has a degree in feminist studies, it should mean she is unemployeed.
It will make hard science soft.
Remember the leftists are the same school as Goebles and his wackado aryan science. The feminists are the same school. These are the same wackos who bring out the "gay" gene to justify absence of personal responsibilty.
2+2= a feeeeling of 5ish.
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