Washington Post: "Can grade-skipping close the STEM gender gap?" | What are your opinions on this?

duhhhh · 2020-05-08T21:35:58+00:00

Like most feminist issues, I believe this is isn't a gendered issue. I dropped out of high school, started college a semester early, did a summer semester, overloaded my schedule by one class one semester, and entered the workforce a year before my high school peers. Girls can do the same thing and my college accepts a higher percentage of female applicants AND gives them more "need based" financial aid to encourage more female enrollment.

rannerbeer · 2020-05-08T23:54:22+00:00

What's the WaPo got to do with this? This links to an article on the Atlantic.

czerdec · 2020-05-09T14:45:09+00:00

We can achieve the same goal much more easily simply by banning men from publishing scientific work. Automatically, women will become vastly more employable as scientists.

It doesn't actually matter if the women know any science, because they can hire the male ex-scientists as "assistants" to do the science, and they can simply collect their royalty checks and follow whatever pursuits they desire: dance, drugs, family, or just soaking up the sunshine in vacation spots.

The advantage of that is we don't have to send children into adult environments where they're at a catastrophic disadvantage in literally every aspect of life except the specific details of her field. I think my idea does less harm.

All possible ideas of grade skipping are simply an attempt to load the dice in favor of a certain outcome. It's more efficient to simply mandate the outcome rather than force it to occur against its inclinations.

Blauwpetje · 2020-05-10T18:07:07+00:00

While in favour of equality of opportunity, I am more and more against forced equality of outcome, because that supposes 'equal power' for men and women in fields that used to be 'unequal', while ignoring the power women have as gatekeepers of sexuality. I am not saying the traditional situation was good, but at least both sexes had something to offer, and forced equality takes away what men had. Already women are complaining they cannot find enough male providers, while men at the bottom of society often are poor and single.

Title	Washington Post: "Can grade-skipping close the STEM gender gap?" \| What are your opinions on this?
Author	Strikester101
Upvotes	3
Comments	18
Date	May 8, 2020 4:26 PM UTC (6 years ago)
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