Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 01:43:02 PM EDT
Subject: California invested millions in STEM for women. The results are disappointing
California invested millions in STEM for women. The results are disappointing
https://www.sfgate.com/news/bayarea/article/calmatters-california-invested-millions-pushing-20821075.php?utm_campaign=CMS%20Sharing%20Tools%20(Premium)&utm_source=share-by-email&utm_medium=email
Over the next few years, they poured millions of dollars into increasing the number of women pursuing STEM degrees. But the rate of women who attain those degrees has hardly improved.
https://www.sfgate.com/news/bayarea/article/calmatters-california-invested-millions-pushing-20821075.php?utm_campaign=CMS%20Sharing%20Tools%20(Premium)&utm_source=share-by-email&utm_medium=email
Over the next few years, they poured millions of dollars into increasing the number of women pursuing STEM degrees. But the rate of women who attain those degrees has hardly improved.
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I need to bring this matter to the attention of my sister-in-law, a UC Berkeley PhD with a post-doc from Harvard.
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Once a month I allow myself to skip one article. This one was it for August.
--GRA
From TV GUIDE, 1975:
An article about real-life convicts talking about crime shows they get to watch while incarcerated- one of the cons says, "Everybody likes Angie Dickinson ["Police Woman"], even though she doesn't look like a real policewoman. The women cops I've known aren't that pretty, they looked more like truckdrivers in drag. They had a kind of hard, mannish appearance."
Like 99.9% of women who choose to go into men's professions!
-RM
Adam Eschelman’s article in the SF Chronicle about women in STEM fields is full of lies—suffused with the same kind of faux cheerfulness and optimism found in stories about “closing the gap” between white and black academic performance in education. The fact is that there is a significant difference between the sexes in mathematical abilities on average (an important qualification!) that has long been documented by standardized tests, most notably the venerable SAT, a test first begun in 1926.
In 1995 in response to declining SAT scores, the College Board began what was to become a series of “dumbing down” changes to the test, a change that was mirrored in its very name which evolved from Scholastic Aptitude Test until 1993 to Scholastic Assessment Test (briefly), and now means literally nothing at all since “SAT” as an acronym goes undefined. For a recent critique see “The College Board is Dumbing Down Its SAT Test Again—Doing No One Any Favors,” The New York Post March 7, 2024 by Wai Wah Chin (note the name). It doesn’t matter; the “gap” between the sexes in mathematical abilities—on average--remains intractable, something apparently wired into the species. Of course colleges and other institutions can mask this fact, as with racial differences, through affirmative action. Thus MIT has been admitting female students with lower SAT scores than males, and in 2006 had an acceptance rate of girls more than double than that of boys (27% versus 12%) See https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/uhoh/.
Also in this vein, I just read about an old NET program purporting to explain why Latin American countries (including the Caribbean) have traditionally been backward and underdeveloped- not because they're populated by backward people (black and Indian), but because of "DISCRIMINATION" against those people! The program also pinned blame on the more advanced colonizers from Spain, who exploited the natives and- get this- decimated "SOPHISTICATED Indian civilizations"! (The ones who practiced human sacrifice, perhaps.)
The program was imported from Canada, circa 1965.
-RM
Something more current:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/billionaires-backing-woke-math-doesnt-add-amid-dei-rollback
Horrific stuff.
-RM
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