Posted on 11/29/2016 9:29:09 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Largest all-female expedition braves Antarctica to fight inequality, climate change
By Umberto Bacchi
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The largest all-female expedition to Antarctica, comprising 76 scientists, is due to set sail from Argentina on Friday in a quest to promote women in science and highlight the impact of climate change on the planet.
The international team will brave sub-zero temperatures to undergo a 20-day bootcamp on the frozen continent aimed at developing their leadership skills and challenging male dominance of senior scientific roles.
Women make up only 28 percent of the world's researchers and are particularly under-represented at senior levels, the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) says.
Yet greater female leadership is needed to fight climate change, which disproportionately affects women, according to Fabian Dattner, co-founder of the Antarctica initiative, Homeward Bound.
"Mother Nature needs her daughters," said Dattner, an Australian entrepreneur and leadership coach.
(Excerpt) Read more at in.reuters.com ...
Mother Nature has no compunction against sending a random hurricane, flood, or blizzard to kill scores of her daughters and sons. We should respect nature but not idealize it.
Bitter -now literally!
Feminist PhD Candidate: Science Is Sexist Because It’s Not Subjective
BYLINE: Women and minorities cannot understand logic or objective truths, says a graduate student in her dissertation, so science classes should stop using the scientific method.
By Joy Pullman. |. The Federalist
College science classes are hostile to women and minorities because they use the scientific method, which assumes people can find reliable truths about the natural world through careful and sustained experimentation, concludes a recent dissertation by a doctoral candidate at the University of North Dakota.
Laura Parson, a student in the university’s education department, reviewed eight science class syllabi at a “Midwest public university” and said she discovered in them a hidden hostility to women and minorities:
Initial exploration of the STEM syllabi in this study did not reveal overt references to gender, such as through the use of gendered pronouns. However, upon deeper review, language used in the syllabi reflects institutionalized STEM teaching practices and views about knowledge that are inherently discriminatory to women and minorities by promoting a view of knowledge as static and unchanging, a view of teaching that promotes the idea of a passive student, and by promoting a chilly climate that marginalizes women.
Even though the course syllabi contained no “gendered assumptions” about students or other overtly discriminatory implications, Parson writes, they display prejudice against women and minorities because they refuse to entertain the possibility that “scientific knowledge is subjective.”
Women Are Too Stupid to Use Logic
Throughout her dissertation, Parson assumes and asserts that women and minorities are uniquely challenged by the idea that science can provide objective information about the natural world. This is an unfair assumption, she says, because the concept of objectivity is too hard for women and minorities to understand. “[N]otions of absolute truth and a single reality” are “masculine,” she says, referring to poststructuralist feminist theory.
Instead of promoting the idea that knowledge is constructed by the student and dynamic, subject to change as it would in a more feminist view of knowledge, the syllabi reinforce the larger male-dominant view of knowledge as one that students acquire and use make [sic] the correct decision.
So, in other words, using logic and the scientific method are inherently “male” ways of knowing that women and minorities cannot employ. Rather than rejecting this insulting view of women and minorities’ intellectual and rational capacities, Parson uses it as a pretext to advocate that science classes abandon the scientific method itself (which rests on the assumption that truth is unchanging and knowable) and all other “male” forms of oppression, such as “weed-out courses, courses that grade on a curve, a competitive environment, reliance on lecture as a teaching method, an individualistic culture, and comprehensive exams.”
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Link: http://thefederalist.com/2016/09/29/feminist-phd-candidate-science-sexist-not-subjective/
The chick in the foreground of your photo looks to be wearing pumps!
I see her naked ankle. Brrr, must be really cold there.
I propose we call it their vagenda.
Just be sure to...
“Keep watching the skies”.
groan...
Damn, ain’t nature wonderful....
Holy cow...
“...“Keep watching the skies”....”
Great movie... one of my favorites.
Loved the 1982 remake too... the 2011 Prequel was good; showed the Norwegians who first dug it up. Ended with the Helicopter scene that the 9182 version started with.
It’s late Spring in Antarctica. Hope they have lots of penguins to eat.
Don’t look, Maryanne!
“You would have to worry about canoodling with the crew, but then again...”
Only if the crew can’t run fast enough, or if the lock on the forecastle isn’t hefty enough.
“Mother Nature needs her daughters,” said Dattner, an Australian entrepreneur and leadership coach.
No, she said it wrong. That is NOT how a proper leftist talks! You have to add “and stuff” at the end of a proper leftist comment.
Incorrect:
“Mother Nature needs her daughters”
Correct:
“Mother Nature needs her daughters and stuff”
Nobel Laureate Tim Hunt used to disagree with you.
Until they fired him for pointing out the truth.
Sounds like the Hillary Campaign.
Lol. Even though it's a pro-woman position. I don't know any male scientist who wouldn't want to see more women in science. But 99% of women make retching sounds when chemistry, physics or computer science are mentioned.
WHat? There are (other than a couple researchers) no men there. And there are no fossil fuels being used there.
This is like taking a rocket to Mars to fight against hair loss and constipation.
Random, attention seeking stunt.
Considering how cold this week is going to get they may freeze to death waiting for that global warming.
You must be an old coot!
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