If you start out as a “C” student...it doesn’t get any easier.
That will make our bridges safer....../s
Maybe to get more women, women need to be interested.
These commies never consider that. Theyd rather force us all into things we dont like to make it look fair.
Speaking as a woman engineer.
If I was to be in that engineering school, it would just make me want to crush the chicks on each and every test. Getting in and staying in are two different things, and, at least when I was in engineering school, grades and test scores were very, very competitive.
Yikes. Wonder how many extra points a handicapped woman of color will get?
That just makes it easier for guys to get in.
As in sports, they need only declare themselves female.
Not happening just in Australia, it is popping up here as well.
This is academia’s equivalent of McNamara’s Project 100000.
What could possibly go wrong?
Baskets lowered to 8 feet for Asian cagers
Someone once told me....years ago....Men don't have a monopoly on brains.
Well... diversity is our strength, you know!
C grade applicants for C grade work on the job. Companies be forewarned.
On the one hand there is nothing wrong with men and women not choosing the same academic course or the same careers in equal numbers. Nothing about human nature says they should.
On the other hand if academics want to get more women involved in one profession or another, the place for those efforts is in the education that leads folks to college, not in lowering college standards so that otherwise unqualified women get in.
That leaves only two things that are legitimate to do, and both are limited and both are in high school. The first one is simply trying to attract more women into high school courses that will make them candidates for STEM courses in college. That attraction should not be lowering standards for them their in high school either. The second is treating the women that get into those courses no different than the men, so that if they do well by their own work effort, they will get accepted into STEM courses in college.
That is legitimate. Making artificial statistical targets on the unnatural pretense that men and women SHOULD be attracted to the same courses in equal numbers is wrong in every way.
Just a totally horrible idea. Cheats those women who can and do make it without having the scales tipped for them, too.
Which means fewer economically-attractive men to marry.
The knotheads either don’t realize or don’t care this hurts women engineers who have earned their degrees and jobs in even competition with men and other women. Same as has been done with blacks. “Affirmative action” like this is disastrous. (BS Mech Eng, MS Systems Eng)
“I know I look like a man. And have a man’s name. But I self identify as a woman.”
So admit me in dammit.”