Posted on 03/23/2016 7:01:02 AM PDT by C19fan
A doctoral candidate at the University of North Dakota published a paper suggesting that we should make Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) courses more “inclusive” of women by making then “less competitive,” which is about the most sexist thing I’ve ever heard. “There is an opportunity for STEM courses to reduce the perception of courses as difficult and unfriendly through language use in the syllabi, and also as a guide for how to use less competitive teaching methods and grading profiles that could improve the experience of female students,” Laura Parson wrote in the paper.
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the toilets in the Engineering Hall all had little chalk boards in them.
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Engineers prefer problem solving over a ‘good time’ I guess.
This is the Left trying to Control that last bastion of academia that they have no control over. They control everything else.
There *is* a little something to what she is saying. STEM programs use certain classes to “weed out the weak.” In theory, this practice should ensure the most gifted students progress. In practice, it ensures the most confident / competition-oriented / stubborn progress.
I was in a class where the average grade just before the mid-term and the last day to drop was a 30. (70 was passing, and anyone watching their GPA for grad school felt they needed an 85.) Looking at the syllabus, if you had a 30, the best grade you could hope for by the end of the semester was a 76... if you suddenly got perfect scores on every quiz and test. About 20 of 30 students dropped out. That only increased the class average to 35, so it wasn’t like the worst students were the ones who dropped out.
The class average at the end of the semester was 85. The professor threw out the bad test scores of anyone who passed the final.
Who stayed? The kids whose parents would kill them either way... the members of organizations whose other members had passed the course... Not a single white girl.
Women like Parsons could get treated a lot better by STEM professionals if they’d make more sammiches for ‘em.
Makes sense. All the BS that has infested blue collar police and firefighter jobs — relaxing standards for strength tests — has finally made its way into white collar jobs. It doesn’t matter if the female engineer was too stupid and screwed up the design for a bridge that collapsed, at least her self-esteem wasn’t hurt!
Dumb it down, fill it with incompetents and in five years the ‘profession’ will be paying slightly above minimum wage...
STEM courses are fact based not feelings based, subjective not objective. Mathematical proofs must be rigorous, one wrong step and the proof goes blooey! Scientific hypotheses must be proven - they are not the result of consensus. No wonder the “feelings” crowd finds them difficult to comprehend.
This lowering the bar has been going on for decades.
One of our younger relatives has a real construction project management degree (engineering plus the business management skills) needed to get jobs done on time and on budget.
A couple of decades ago, the heavy duty construction company he worked for magically made female secretaries construction project managers. He refused to work with any of them and his clients quickly did the math on these phonies and refused to deal with them.
I got a phone call from him it went like this after he explained the fraud, “Uncle Dave what should I do!”
My advice was to quickly find another job and let his new company know why he was leaving. He got several job offers. He is still with the company that hired him.
The company he left went broke in about a year. His current company has all the projects they can handle, including many
of his former clients with his previous now out of business company.
Einstein translates to “one stein” or “one glass” (of beer) - LOL!
Reduce the perception? Okay.
... and also as a guide for how to use less competitive teaching methods and grading profiles that could improve the experience of female students,”
Oh... this part is NOT okay. Lowering the bar is what we call it, and it's not okay.
A PhD in education or an EdD is less difficult than an AA in electronics.
I love these stories where the leftists and feminists rage against nature and biology, as if whining against the unfairness of it all has any weight with nature.
Boy are these spoiled children stupid.
“Generally boys do better in STEM classes and worse in English and foreign languages. Guess which ones they keep adding to the requirements and which they try to take out? It’s part of the war on boys that has permeated our schools.”
One of our younger second generation male relatives is very good with math and science classes. He goes to an expensive private all male school. He recently told us that next year his STEM classes will become STEMA, The A stands for arts.
I posed the question to his parents, “Did they add A/arts to hire female teachers to meet some quota!”
At first I was laughed at, now his parents are not laughing.
They and other parents are now opposing this PC crap. They are paying $20 k per year out of their pocket for this PC bs.
There really is a natural division of the sexes, but those who are cross-overs should be given their chance to compete. However, that can NOT mean making it easier. All it can mean is: you get a seat in the class. Do your best and good luck.
Unfortunately, the only option might be taking the “fairy.”
[ I work with female engineers that would take GREAT EXCEPTION to the thought that these courses need to be dumbed down for women to pass them! ]
I am one and I whole heatedly SECOND that!
“How do you feel about the number 7?”
This is like making the military “less competitive” so women can qualify for combat service. Making it less competitive is dangerous for the woman who couldn’t quite make the grade and the men who would be fighting alongside her.
My grandson is a computer science graduate from Purdue. There were 100 students in his class; 5 were women. He was offered an excellent job he loves and is doing extremely well. He has an opportunity for a great future. The company he is working for recruited from 3 universities because they know the quality of education those students receive. They know the curriculum has not been “dumbed down”, to put it bluntly.
[ Dumb it down, fill it with incompetents and in five years the ‘profession’ will be paying slightly above minimum wage... ]
We used to be a “Merit-ocracy” now we are a “Victim-ocracy”
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