My God. This reads like a f’ing Onion headline.
“Scientists Discover Women Aren’t in Science and Engineering Because They Don’t Want To Be“
Now two new studies by economists and social scientists have reached a perhaps startling conclusion: An important part of the explanation for the gender gap, they are finding, are the preferences of women themselves. When it comes to certain math- and science-related jobs, substantial numbers of women - highly qualified for the work - stay out of those careers because they would simply rather do something else.
Wow, that’s monumental. Massive studies to figure out what people instinctively knew but didn’t want to address. The answer has been right in front of us since the gap has been there. All you have to do is ask women.
The irony is that simply asking women, and having them tell you that they weren’t interested, wasn’t enough. Their responses were discounted as if their own desires couldn’t possibly be the primary factor.
“Sir, I asked 1,000 women and most of them said they just didn’t want to do Calculus.” So the people with the agenda say, “You asked them? What the hell do they know? Dammit, go find the real reason they’re not in science.”
Gee, that’s uplifting for women. Don’t trust them to tell you what they want for themselves just because the answers offend our pc-trained ears. Yay for objectiveness. Once again political correctness maligns science.
Here, try this — I know this isn’t scientific but you’ll get the idea. How many women do you know? How many girls about to be women do you know? Great, now how many of them want to be computer scientists? How about mathematicians? Yeah, me too. Now extrapolate. Brilliant!
More from the article:
Rosenbloom and his colleagues used a standard personality-inventory test to measure people’s preferences for different kinds of work. In general, Rosenbloom’s study found, men and women who enjoyed the explicit manipulation of tools or machines were more likely to choose IT careers - and it was mostly men who scored high in this area. Meanwhile, people who enjoyed working with others were less likely to choose IT careers. Women, on average, were more likely to score high in this arena.
Personal preference, Rosenbloom and his group concluded, was the single largest determinative factor in whether women went into IT. They calculated that preference accounted for about two-thirds of the gender imbalance in the field. The study was published in November in the Journal of Economic Psychology.
Let’s try a simple explanation. Men and women are different and hence have different interests. But when women have the desire and drive to be in IT and other engineering-type vocations, they can excel at it to the point of making most men look silly — just like in any other field. The difference is just that there are less women with this particular drive than men.
So what? They also have uteruses. Should we try and determine why? What malfunction caused men to be born without them?
Pretending we’re all the same isn’t going to make it so, no matter how much money we dump into that agenda. We’re different, and it’s a good thing. Accept that we’re all fundamentally equal according to the precepts of secular humanism and move on with life.:
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