Profs warn that 'commitment to empirical science' hurts women

Campus Reform ^ | Mar 23, 2018 at 9:45 AM EDT | Toni Airaksinen

[Eurotwit]

A recent academic journal article claims that "meritocratic ideology" and "depoliticized" classroom environments contribute to a sense of exclusion and isolation among female students.

The professors argue that the emphasis on "meritocracy," "individualism," and "technical prowess" in engineering all contribute to a "masculine culture" that marginalizes women.

Four professors are warning that the “hegemony of meritocratic ideology” and other manifestations of “masculine culture” in engineering courses are detrimental to women.

Led by Carroll Serron, who teaches at the University of California-Irvine, the March 1 study contends that the sense of exclusion and isolation felt by female engineering students is exacerbated by the overwhelming “meritocratic ideology” in the field.

Though some scholars argue that engineering culture upholds hegemonic masculinity, Serron and her team take a different approach, arguing that it is not specifically “hegemonic masculinity” that hurts women but rather “meritocratic ideology.”

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The professors are especially concerned with how engineering courses tend to be “depoliticized” compared to classes in other fields, which they contend is due in part to engineering culture’s emphasis on meritocracy and individualism.

“Socialization into the ideologies of meritocracy and individualism, coupled with a valorization of ‘technical’ prowess at the expense of ‘socially focused’ work processes, depoliticizes the gendered structure of the profession,” they write.

The professors add that this can be problematic because “students learn that raising concerns about marginalization—of themselves or others—is tangential or even distracting to what counts as the ‘real’ practical and objective work of engineering.”

“In its commitment to empirical science, technical thinking, merit, and individualism, engineering culture allocates what it sees as political issues, such as gender equality, to the realm of the social and subjective, therefore, off-limits,” the paper asserts. “Thus, the depoliticized culture of engineering also constitutes a degendered space where issues that may be of social concern to women in science are also devalued and marginalized.”

Based on a review of diary entries from three-dozen female engineering students, the professors conclude that female students are also guilty of upholding this problematic culture through their unwillingness to critique it.

“Rather than telling what [some researchers] describe as a subversive story...these women engineers are often reproductive agents of the ideology of meritocracy, helping perpetuate existing relations of power and inequality,” they write.

“Rather than resisting hegemonic meritocracy, these brilliant young women engineers are its active promoters,” they say, later adding that this commitment to meritocracy undermines women’s best interests, as it unwittingly reinforces the “gendered consequences of engineering professional hegemony.”

The study—“I’m not a Feminist, but…”: Hegemony of a Meritocratic Ideology and the Limits of Critique Among Women in Engineering”—was published in the recent issue of the journal Work and Occupations.

[dsc]

Commitment to empirical science hurts dumbasses. Is he saying that women are dumbasses?

[ully2]

Pure word smithing BS.

[Blue Collar Christian]

So let’s have engineers who are women design a bridge at a university near him.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

#3 Can anyone translate this leftist crap into plain English? I don’t recognize half of their adjectives, adverbs and newly created nouns.

Re “empirical science”. Didn’t know that Empires had “science” though the communists/Marxists are always talking about “scientific socialism” as though it was a valid concept. Guess they never read the results of Lysenko’s “fake” environmental changes on genetics.

In fact, I guess that half these leftist aholes who pose as professors have never read much of anything that was purely “scientific” without the Marxist shit thrown in (which happens a lot in “Scientific Americans” and some of the “newer” supposedly “science” publications and website.

As a wise man said many centuries ago that would apply to these faux-scientists about their anti-male, anti-white, anti-American, anti-free enterprise and pro-83 genders rants, “prove it”.

[Gene Eric]

The insanity is definitely marked by the generations, but it progressed incrementally over time.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

#52. Marie Curie was a hardcore communist so she would probably agree with the crap these professors spouted.

There were women who contributed significantly to the technological side of cryptology during WW2 (the Bletchley Girls), Hedy Lamarr (invented a device concerning undersea warfare), women astronauts, the marvelous medical nurses of all our wars, the female spies (including Julia Childs, the chief), and now air force mechanics and pilots, etc.

A smart woman can hold her own against any man if given the chance. I work with some very smart women in the legal field. Wouldn’t want to go up against them in court.

And if anyone bothers to watch some current business ads on TV/Cable TV, they showcase a lot of women as CEO’s of technological firms. Good for them. We need more smart women, not political fakes and whores like Hillary Clinton and Fauxcohantas.

[arthurus]

Science should be based purely on Emotion and Feminine Sensitivities.

How could what these professors say possibly true??? There are NO DIFFERENCES among human beings. I bet those professors have espoused exactly that before.

[HKMk23]

Almost. They’ve admitted that they’re disgusted that, when they DO do the math, they don’t get their own special feminine set of answers that they can use to show up the men who did the math last century.

[RedMonqey]

Competency is a “white man construct”

[Vehmgericht]

Science and engineering are the last bastions of sanity in higher education. This cannot be tolerated by the Frankfurt School influenced professorate. The hard sciences exclude those with IQs under 85 and many women. This meritocracy is a ‘tool of whiteness,’ and sexism. Blacks who want to excel are attacked for acting white. Some academic version of Gen. George Casey is saying, “What happened at the bridge by Florida International University was a tragedy, but I believe it would be an even greater tragedy if our diversity becomes a casualty here.” Are the Chinese following our lead in this matter. If not they will be the leaders in this field. This study was Led by Carroll Serron, who teaches at the University of California-Irvine. She has been the Principal Investigator for multiple projects funded by the National Science Foundation, among other foundations. Your tax dollars at work. The President did not veto this.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Sounds like a winner.

She is a Professor of Criminology, Law & Society, and teaches Social Ecology II.

Specializations:
sociology of law, sociology of professions, law and society, police misconduct, and research methods

[whistleduck]

Absurd. To put this in perspective—at my Moms funeral I learned that she had enrolled in an engineering class at the Univ of Iowa in the 1930s. She was removed the next day by the Dean. Seems she had enrolled as “Ed” rather than Edna in an effort to game the male only enrollment policy of the time.

Now that was a significant injustice—yet she never stated anything about it to us kids. She just got on with her life.

[Truthoverpower]

They can’t get Engineering
We’ll learn WITHOUT THEM FROM BOOKS BY OURSELVES
WERE ENGINEERS !

[hinckley buzzard]

The “professor,” Carroll Serron, is a sociology teacher and clearly is devoid of critical thinking, much less knowledge of the empirical sciences essential to engineering. Truly this is sick sick sick.

[DoughtyOne]

Way way way way beyond time to level out the political emphasis of the staff at our universities.

This is a national scandal.

K-12th grade is about as bed these days.

Total indoctrination post parent full-time custody essentially.

[wjcsux]

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[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

Profs warn that 'commitment to empirical science' hurts women

Empirical science? Newton's Laws of motion dictate most of structural and mechanical engineering analyses. When did they go from deductive analytical reasoning to inductive methods? The left is now going full bore in its attack on western civilization. Academia is the spear tip of the attack.

[tbpiper]

So, let's say you're building a pedestrian bridge. As long as you feel the calculations are correct, it's ok?

[SkyPilot]

I have no idea what the Prof is trying to say.

I have spent many years in an around academia, including recent years where the bottom has fallen out of standards and in the hyper-PC leftism that has infected our institutions.

Much of academia today is not based on facts, truth, or especially - the laws of God. It is nothing but a charade of self-stroking and self-serving narcissism.

Academia (universities and colleges) teach garbage in much of their classrooms. Political garbage mixed with lies that they can bend to their own will and sins.

History, social sciences, politics, you name it. They have morphed all of these into stews of black supremacy, feminism, homosexuality, Hispanic supremacy, and the like. They drape their garbage with the thin veneer of "scholarship" - but everyone knows it is a joke. And deep down, so do they. This bothers them, especially when their charade is exposed by real scholarship and study.

The hard sciences have been beyond their reach, because they teach God's truth. You cannot "spin" Differential Equations, Heat Transfer, Metallurgy, Thermodynamics, or Bernoulli's Equation.

So now they are going to target engineering, because not only is it male dominated (Asians and European-Americans make up the vast majority of its students), but because the hard sciences that have not been completely infected by PC expose their own lies and the sham of "scholarship."

[SkyPilot]

Some academic version of Gen. George Casey is saying, “What happened at the bridge by Florida International University was a tragedy, but I believe it would be an even greater tragedy if our diversity becomes a casualty here.”

That analogy is more dead on than you know.