Forbes’ George Anders is a PC wimp. There is no problem to solve, or rather, the real problem is the power of feminazis in academia and the media. Stanford President John Hennessy gave that moronic, misleading affirmative action speech because he’s a political hack, and he’s terrified of feminists destroying him the way they destroyed Larry Summers at Harvard. Hennessy almost certainly had a diversity trainer in the affirmative action office write his mendacious speech. And then Anders wrote the following moronic, misleading affirmative action propaganda article, because he’s afraid of feminists getting him run off his job.
As psychometrician Linda Gottfredson pointed out in a debate with corrupt, feminist hack Nancy Hopkins ten years ago, this is a zero-sum game. You can only get more women into the sciences if you discourage them from joining fields which they currently dominate. Gottfredson asked Hopkins, “When would you be happy?” with the percentage of women in the sciences, but the latter kept dodging the question.
However, beyond the fact that there is greater variance in men’s than women’s IQs, so that there are many more men in the 140+, 150+, and 160+ ranges, men on average have higher IQs than females.
[I suppose the Michelle Obama strategy is an option, as well: Flood STEM departments with thousands of scientifically illiterate, innumerate, low IQ females who don’t belong in any field, give them social promotion all the way through graduation and grad school, and then force employers to hire them, instead of qualified, brilliant, white and Asian men.]
Neither Hopkins nor anyone else has provided any research, analysis, or facts, just the unquestioned assumption that if fewer than 50% of tenured science and engineering professorships are given to women, an institution is guilty of discrimination. On the other hand, she and other feminists have no problem with female-dominated academic departments.
Affirmative action would ruin the sciences, because women aren’t as good at them as men are. And so, academia will now squander billions of dollars on AA for incompetent females, in addition to the billions of dollars it is already wasting on incompetent blacks and Hispanics, while discriminating against competent white men, who will have to pay for this Lysenkoization.
America is so screwed.
Stanford President Shares 4 Ideas for Boosting Women in Tech
By George Anders
11/04/2014 @ 6:19 P.M. 2,412 views
Forbes
Why are science and tech such male-dominated fields, and what can be done to improve women’s chances? Some brilliant male leaders have flubbed that question, with painful consequences. So when Stanford president John Hennessy faced a variant of The Question at Intel Capital’s annual summit this afternoon, people waited on every word.
Hennessy officially was on stage to talk about university/industry collaboration. (He’s for it.) But given Hennessy’s impact on Silicon Valley, it didn’t take long for the on-stage conversation to move to more stirring [political hackery] topics. Hennessy is a Google director, a Cisco director, and a one-time cofounder of notable tech companies himself.
Hennessy’s answer focused on four [non-existent] barriers to gender equality — with proposed solutions for each. His most combative words involved the impact of violent videogames; his greatest personal involvement arose in expanding female students’ access to mentors and role models.
[Videogames are irrelevant. “Mentors and role models” are a longtime black AA talking point, as if they would turn an 78-85 IQ dunce into a 140 IQ wiz kid.]
Hennessy’s analysis of women’s role in science and tech began with the assertion [that’s right: assertion] that “our system is broken somewhere between middle school and high school.” [The “system is broken” is a longtime open borders lobby talking point.] He noted that in elementary school, girls do slightly better than boys in math and science, but they fall behind in early adolescence. [Rather, boys jump ahead of girls, because of puberty. But he knows that! And why isn’t he bothered that boys start out behind girls?] His proposed remedy: better role models and inspiration for girls, aimed at “getting them to believe that they can create a better world.”
[Sexual cheerleading? This is pathetic. It has to go on at the same time with mind games to make boys feel stupid. Oops, I just remembered, that’s been going on for years, along with feminists cheating boys on their math and science grades.]
Another worry on Hennessy’s list: the rise of a “gamification culture” that put heavy emphasis on “killing people and killing monsters.” Boys may like such on-screen diversions, but, as Hennessy noted, “it’s not what girls found attractive.” [So, what? No one is forcing girls to play video games. Is he upset that boys may be enjoying themselves?] That problem may be fixing itself, he suggested, as computers now provide a gateway to social media, with high levels of engagement by girls. [Social media—that’ll really boost their abilities!]
His third concern: the “isolation effect” at universities, particularly for students who end up being the only woman in a tough math or science course of 30 people. In such situations, a woman getting a disappointing B or C may become discouraged and lack any peer encouragement to bounce back. [Sexual fantasy: That when a man gets a B or C, he gets “peer encouragement to bounce back.”] His remedy: better support networks for female students.
[Translation: Political pressure and social promotion for inferior females.]
Rounding out on his list, the risk that female students see computer science as a lonely pursuit that involves “sitting in front of a terminal for 10 hours a day, coding all the time, without any interaction with anyone else.”
“I’ve mentored a lot of people,” Hennessy said. “I take them down to Google and show them people working together.” He said he hopes that such first-hand experiences will help shake a mindset that coding is for misanthropes.
[So, females must be coddled.]
Overall, he noted, Stanford’s technical fields such as computer science are attracting more female students. “That’s critical,” he said. He also observed that Stanford now — for the first time — has a female dean of engineering, Persis Drell.
[Is that grounds for celebration, or mourning?]
Except Larry Summers… went to work at the White House.
ReplyDeletePeople use the “my career will be destroyed” excuse TOO often.
How many careers are REALLY destroyed by doing XYZ, right or wrong, good or bad these days?