[CitizenUSA]

What’s interesting is this crap only goes one way. No one is looking for areas where white males are underrepresented and trying desperately to increase white male participation. If only 30% of stem degrees are going to women, it only follows that women are WAY over represented in other degree programs, like sociology. Where’s the concern about “equity” there?

[FLNittany]

“Oh - I didn’t have to take the MCATS. Can’t you see I’m black? Don’t worry - I’ll do my best.”

[the OlLine Rebel]

They also don’t tell you how MANY women are in the programs.

Maybe only 36% of participants are women! That means - 100% of the women that participate are graduating!

Good God.

I am a woman. I had lots of difficulty with “introductory” classes. Had repeats in a better school. Got past that, graduated from high-rated engineering school with 3.4 GPA.

We had some women in that school’s program; not many, but there were a few besides me. In work, there were more women than at school. Still not overwhelming, but definitely there.

There are probably more now, but likely not much more.

I don’t care. Are we supposed to force women (or any group) into certain areas all for the name of “equity”?

[Night Hides Not]

Notice how women are dominating the accounting industry, mostly in the auditing and general accounting areas? Tax services seem to be the last remaining bastion for men, at least that's my experience.

Women are 60+% of the auditors at DCAA. I hated my time there, 3 years was wasted. Autocratic as hell, and most supervisors did NOT like to be challenged. I didn't help matters by talking about how well the FDIC did their jobs, and what a great agency it was.

Tax work still requires much independent thought, thanks to the 70,000+ pages of the tax code, and the gray areas found there. IMHO, it requires a mindset of battling the IRS and their bureaucracy. Auditing, OTOH, is more rote work from following dozens of checklists.

Quickbooks, and other canned programs, have taken the "thinking outside of the box" that I enjoy doing accounting work. Management and business owners have this attitude that all they need are bookkeepers to enter the transactions, and the program will spit out the answers they need to run their operations.

Thankfully, I return to strictly tax work at a real estate company on Monday. "I'm going home", so to speak. The best part of my interview was from an observation by the interviewer on my experience at DCAA: "that must have been boring as hell." lol

Apologies for the rant.

[Elsie]

We know that white men can no longer play football or basketball.