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.
I don’t think anyone should be able to graduate with a college degree unless they understand compound interest. It will have a larger role in most peoples life than a foreign language.
The objective is to IMPART KNOWLEDGE to most EFFECTIVELY address TECHNICAL PROBLEMS.
This isn’t about filling a chair at an engineering firm and collecting a paycheck.
You must be EQUIPPED to SOLVE THE PROBLEM!!!
She is the SEXIST for suggesting WOMEN CAN’T HANDLE IT!!
Evidently Laura Parson considers women to be inferior.
This kind of “Doctoral” thinking coming out of the North Dakota higher education system is indicative of the depths to which it has sunk. Save us all a lot of trouble and just sell lottery tickets to a Doctoral Degree, put them in a pot at what ever ration of men to women desired and then have a drawing.
The fact this article was ever written says ‘education’ has already had the bar lowered.
Whine, whine, whine. Look at me, I’m a victim! WAHHHH.
Sorry, but in my son’s graduating class there were many, many young women, but they were all Indians, Chinese, a few Russians, and assorted Asians among the few American women.
Not one of them thought they needed to be “helped” since all of them were graduates of highly competitive schools in their own countries.
My daughter is a physics major at a well-known university.
Out of about 90 kids in the honors course, only 6 are women - and its only freshman year. They only started out with only 9 female students anyway and in fact, a much higher percentage of boys have dropped out.
The girls who remain are doing well, but there simply isn’t the interest in Physics among the female student body.
one of the STEM benefits is that the program is largely free of females that can’t measure up
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.
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.
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.
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.
“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.