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How to get more women into STEM fields

August 31, 2015 By August Løvenskiolds 73 Comments

Even though women dominate higher education – they are now about 60% of all college students – in some academic disciplines, particularly Science / Technology / Engineering / Mathematics – the so-called STEM fields – women make up only a small percentage of students. People on both sides of the feminist divide sometimes see this as a problem that perhaps should be addressed, but how to fix the problem – if it is indeed a problem – remains elusive. I have some ideas that I’ll discuss in a moment, but first, some background.

Personally, I believe, in agreement with MRAs like Karen Straughan, that forcing or channeling women into STEM against their natures and/or desires is not a good thing – just let people do what they want to do – but as an academic exercise it is interesting to speculate on ways to get women into STEM, just as “#HeForShe” feminists try to trick men into supporting feminism by fraudulently asserting that feminists care about men’s issues, too.

Are women even interested in studying science? It is well-established scientifically that, on the very first day of life, before social pressures or the mythical “patriarchy” kicks in, newborn girls prefer, on average, to look at faces while newborn boys prefer to look at physical mechanical objects. This suggests that, without some sort of artificial intervention, more girls will naturally gravitate to soft social studies, while more boys will prefer hard STEM fields. In fact, this clear gender dimorphism plays out on college campuses decade after decade.

The feminist record on solving the problem of increasing the proportion of women in STEM is, of course, quite poor, if not downright shitty and antagonistic:

  • Feminist Sandra Harding sabotaged women’s interest in science forever when she absurdly characterized famous physicist Sir Isaac Newton’s foundational book Principia (full title: Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica) as a “rape manual.” What sane woman would be encouraged to study STEM after hearing that? (Ironically, far from being a rapist, it is believed that Newton died a virgin, perhaps because women avoided STEM in the 17th century much as they do today.)
  • Feminist Luce Irigaray fatuously derided Albert Einstein’s famous formula “E=mc2” as a “sexed equation,” and by claiming that, she again signaled women that science is for men only.
  • In a fireside chat with Karen Straughan and Alison Tieman, a feminist named Kevin Logan made a nebulous (and therefore, useless) suggestion to get women into STEM by “reducing traditional gender roles,” which, given the innate, proven biological nature of subject preferences noted above, is about as useful as saying “more biological men should give birth to babies.”

One can find a lot more examples of hostility to science among feminists but my point is that simply getting rid of feminism completely would seem to be a great way of eliminating the social barriers that feminists create to dissuade women from science. However, as a man blessed with the male agency that feminists lack, I think we can do even better than just eliminating feminism: we can use it to put women into STEM classes directly.

The safe and sane way to do this is to remove feminist courses like “women’s (or gender) studies” from the social sciences and put them as a subcategory of STEM classes under the strict purview of college science departments, complete with a large number of science prerequisite classes.

What is a prerequisite? In college, in order to take an advanced class, one must master more basic classes first. These basic classes are usually listed as “prerequisites” for the advanced classes.

For example, before one is allowed to study Physical Chemistry, one must complete Basic Chemistry classes as well as some classes in Calculus (Mathematics). Likewise, if you don’t know a lot of basic math, then it is pointless to take a class in Statistics. A course of Formal Logic is a great help when studying computer programming.

Requiring gender studies majors – who are mostly women now – to have a solid background in STEM classes like Logic, Calculus, Statistics, Biology, Evolution, Physics and more will help meet a lot of desirable goals.

  • It will force, er, direct and empower young women into STEM classes where they might overcome feminist (and those purported societal) barriers and actually come to love science.
  • It will bring a rigor to gender studies that is missing today and will perhaps attract more men into such classes, where at present feminist misandry and flawed reasoning work to keep men out.
  • It will force a more accurate use of statistics into gender studies, undermining the ideologically driven misuse of bogus stats like “1 in 5 women are raped on campus,” the debunked “wage gap”, and so on.

Of course, feminists will never allow this to come to pass – it has far to much accountability and equality for them to stomach. The best feminist answers to getting women into STEM are “don’t be so rapey” and perhaps “increase the temperature – the science building is too chilly for chicks.” Even the suggestion to “make science more welcoming to women” ignores the nature of women to mistrust overly friendly overtures.

Even building a shoe outlet store in the middle of the science quad is a better answer than feminists will ever be able to come up with.

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