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The Gender-Equity Hammer Comes Out
NationalReviewOnline ^ | 24 April 2008 | Christina Hoff Sommers

Posted on 04/24/2008 8:38:24 AM PDT by snarks_when_bored

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MIT biologist and equity-activist Nancy Hopkins says that contemporary science “is a system where winning is everything, and women find it repulsive.”

No, women find unsuccessful men repulsive, which is why we flock to demanding, productive, stressful and then highly lucrative fields like biology, physics, and mathematics. A man who majors in a touchy-feely feminized major and flips burgers after college does not attract a mate easily.

21 posted on 04/24/2008 10:48:18 AM PDT by Shigarian
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To: doc30
teamwork

Have seen no good come from this. The group leader would do well anyway and the rest get nothing and they would have got nothing anyway, group or no group.

22 posted on 04/24/2008 11:36:57 AM PDT by RightWhale (Repeal the Law of the Excluded Middle)
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To: Travis McGee

Not from what I have seen in science and engineering! Women typically meet minimum standards then claim wild success. I have met some women who were the best but they are very rare. They are usually superficial in their knowledge. I have a lady on my team that can keep up with anyone on a technical basis and she makes for a good pilot, too, but she is unique in my experiences.

That said, women really are the best multitaskers bar none and excel in many career fields. Take my wife, a clinical social worker in a hospital. I don’t think too many men can perform that level of clinical work and keep it all straight without screwing it up by dropping things. Even with nursing women make the best nurses all around as they can keep multiple patients together at once and never seem to break a sweat. But for some reason, tell them what they are doing is “technical” and they seem to tune out. They certainly have the brains so I don’t know why they run away from technical and scientific studies except maybe they are taught at a young age that mechanical things are for boys.


23 posted on 04/24/2008 12:13:26 PM PDT by CodeToad
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To: SunkenCiv
well, I guess the hammer won't be 'equal protection under the law'.

Hey, some hammers are more equal than others.

24 posted on 04/24/2008 12:52:21 PM PDT by thulldud (Insanity: Electing John McCain again and expecting a different result.)
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"The silliness is palpable..."

But there are votes to be garnered. Anything else goes under the bus.

25 posted on 04/24/2008 1:06:44 PM PDT by YHAOS
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Ah yes, Nancy Hopkins, the ninny who suffered a case of the vapors after Larry Summers made some common sense remarks re men and women.


26 posted on 04/24/2008 1:29:30 PM PDT by allblues
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Have seen no good come from this. The group leader would do well anyway and the rest get nothing and they would have got nothing anyway, group or no group.

Might not be the group leader. Still the magic 20% doing 80% of the work. Team science would mean the team gets credit for the work of 1 and the rest can slack off.

27 posted on 04/24/2008 4:57:21 PM PDT by doc30 (Democrats are to morals what an Etch-A-Sketch is to Art.)
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She’s the same person!? I didn’t even catch that. What a self-centered buffoon.


28 posted on 04/25/2008 5:58:23 AM PDT by Shigarian
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