chanel
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The bad news for professional feminists is that the good news is multiplying: Last year more women than men received doctoral degrees. It is ludicrous to argue that women should be regarded as victims in patriarchal, phallocentric America and must be wards of government.
Women live five years longer than men. Their unemployment rate is significantly lower. For years they have received more high-school diplomas, B.A. and M.A. degrees, and now Ph.D.s. Yet the Obama administration wants the government to increase its protection of the (it evidently assumes) weaker sex. This, even though contrary to what feminist lobbyists would have Congress believe, girls and women are doing well. So says Diana Furchtgott-Roth.
The gender-grievance industrythe financial-reform legislation mandates 29 new offices to favor womenhas a new project. National Journal reports that the administration is promising to litigate, regulate, and legislate the nations universities until women obtain half of all academic degrees in science and technology and hold half the faculty positions in those areas.
Although women receive more B.A.s, M.A.s, and Ph.D.s than men in biology and biomedical sciences, not enough women want what the administration wants them to want. There are fewer women choosing to enter many science and engineering programs than the administration wishes, and it assumes that the reason is discrimination against women. To which Furchtgott-Roth replies: Anti-women discrimination even at womens colleges?
At Bryn Mawr, 4 percent of 2010 graduates majored in chemistry, 2 percent in computer science. At Smith, half of 1 percent were physics majors; 1.4 percent majored in computer science. In 2009 at Barnard, one third of 1 percent majored in physics and astronomy
George F. Will: New Project for the Gender Police - Newsweek
Uh oh. Too few women scientists. Calling rdean.
Affirmative action for the "weaker sex"?