Posted on 02/28/2017 3:35:46 PM PST by bobsunshine
President Donald Trump signed into law two bills on Tuesday aimed at encouraging women to pursue careers in science and business fields.
“Today I’m signing two bills that promote women entering and leading the STEM fields – science, technology, engineering, and math. Currently, only one in four women who gets a STEM degree is working in a STEM job – which is not fair, and it’s not even smart for the people that aren’t taking advantage of it,” Trump said.
“It’s unacceptable that we have so many American women who have these degrees but yet are not being employed in these fields, so I think that’s going to change, and it’s going to change very rapidly. Protecting women with STEM degrees and all Americans with STEM degrees – very important, but it also means you have to crackdown on offshoring, because the offshoring is a tremendous problem that displaces many of our American workers and brains, the brain power,” he said.
“Inspiring the Next Space Pioneers, Innovators, Researchers, and Explorers (INSPIRE) Women Act” (H.R. 321) directs NASA “to encourage women and girls to study science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), pursue careers in aerospace, and further advance the nation’s space science and exploration efforts through support of the following initiatives: NASA GIRLS and NASA BOYS; Aspire to Inspire; and Summer Institute in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Research.”
NASA is expected to support a specific plan to Congress on how best to “facilitate and support both current and retired astronauts, scientists, engineers, and innovators, including early career female astronauts, scientists, engineers, and innovators, to engage with K-12 female STEM students and inspire the next generation of women to consider participating in STEM fields and to pursue careers in aerospace,” the bill stated.
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The short answer is: If you are NOT training your child starting in middle school for STEM, they are NOT going to make it.
I was writing papers on nuclear fission in 6th grade.
Spent most of Elementary to High School bored out of my skull waiting to get to the good stuff.
I was lucky my dad started me out early with electronics.
We already have thousands of laws, regulations, and interest groups to give women every advantage imaginable.
Feminism DESTROYED females
I’m for the bill I guess but our sons are pushed pretty far down on the totem pole for hires, college admissions and more. Especially if they are white
>> while the Media is focused on Kellyanne
The MSM is the Country’s greatest threat.
The parent companies ignoring this bill: Disney, Comcast, Time Warner.
This is something to shut the feminazis up. I’m all for it.
As long as we keep importing Indians, the tech sector will be fine. Maybe at some point Americans, men and women, can do the jobs.
Last data I saw showed females are already a MAJORITY of students taking STEM classes in college. The only Engineering degrees that they don’t dominate are Mechanical and Computer. And, they’re close in Mechanical.
It’s time to start focusing on the REAL problem: Why boys aren’t going to college.
Let me tell you that when women get a STEM degree, then they find out what the job entails, they prefer to get a desk job as a data analyst.
Two of my daughters graduated from top universities, one with a Chemical Engineering degree and the other with a Chemistry degree. They flipped out when they saw the entry level jobs. The first one who graduated from Johns Hopkins had to don overalls and steel toed shoes as she inspected a refinery 50 miles outside of Baton Rouge. That didn’t last too long before she got a job creating graphs and charts for Pentagon brass.
The second one simply said, I hate labs. This came her senior year of college. That was $200,000 into her education. Now I did insist that they get a math or science degree. And I let them pick anything they liked. But I never thought that they would pick majors that did not lead them to a job they liked.
What I learned is that girls can do the math. They can get the grades. But many of them don’t like the jobs. Its not that they don’t want a job. They just don’t want those jobs. And that is not to say that all women are alike. But many women don’t like engineering jobs. Even if they can do them. However I have noticed that the job of doctor is one they do like. And now there are more women M.D.’s graduating than men.
So our sons who are now working and sacrificing to get these STEM jobs in a few years based upon strict qualifications are automatically at a disadvantage now, because you (or Ivanka?) presumes some kind of discrimination to women. Where’s the evidence? Or it just doesn’t “seem” right?
The white boy is already at the back of the line when it comes to hiring. By law.
Shame on you.
At least its American women.
The part of the answer is that many women in STEM meet nice young men in STEM who make nice STEM pay checks. A lot of those women decide being a stay-at-home is more rewarding than living in a cubicle.
Also a lot of STEM women transition into management.
WRONG WRONG WRONG, Mr. President. If you want to talk about fair, then talk about all the young heterosexual men not getting STEM jobs due to their lack of a vagina. Every chance has been given, and most young women can’t compete with the men on a “fair” playing field. True equality comes when women (all “minorities” actually) can hold their own without any special consideration for their brand of hormones and skin color - throwing epic hissy fits for not getting special consideration damages everything.
Utter nonsense
If you read what you wrote, you can answer your own question. Why go if women are favored in the educational arena and increasingly in the private sector? Why bother entering an environment where they have all the power as a group?
Exactly. I got an engineering degree in the 80’s with no government interference at all. What’s needed is real education so anyone can take the tougher classes, not just women.
Trump you misogynistic bastard! /s
I have a STEM degree, Chemical Engineering. I went to work in the computer industry as first a programmer, then a manager. At the time I graduated, there was enough discrimination against women in the field that I could not find a job as an engineer.
I stopped working outside the home to raise and home school my children. My favorite question was when someone would ask me, “But what are you going to do about math?”
I have since retrained to work as a mental health counselor.
Big mistake. This will not shut the feminazis up; it will only egg them on. It’s men who are the victims of discriminstion in de-genderizing America.
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