Will 2019 Be the Year of MRA Lawsuits?

mhandanna · 2020-07-04T16:26:58+00:00

Note there is 11 female only scholarships per 1 male one despite men being a minoriy in university. 200,000 more women in uni. Women also receive 6 billion per year more in goverment grants in education again furthering the exisitng bias.

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I'm a Professor at the University of Adelaide in Australia. My University recently advertised 9 tenured positions in the Faculty of Engineering from which men were excluded from applying. See https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-08-22/university-advertises-women-only-engineering-positions/10151496 You will note that the Dean of Engineering, Professor Ashman, justified this by saying "Society is going to need some very clever engineers and computer scientists and mathematicians in the future to solve a whole range of problems, and if we're not fishing from the whole pond we're going to have a problem." I was perplex as to how excluding 50% of the population is "drawing from the whole pond", but unfortunately, these sort of mental gymnastics seem common in this ideology. In Australia we don't have Title IX, but such discrimination is allowed under an exemption under section 47 Equal Opportunity Act 1984. This allows acts which aim to achieve equality of outcome. In other words, vicarious blame of current male engineering graduates is justified by perceived discrimination in the past, to which they had no connection or control (they weren't even born). The University is saying, essentially, "as far as we are concerned, if you have a penis, your degree is worthless". I find this utterly repugnant. The bigger concern is that this attitude is enshrined in legislation. How the hell did we allow that to happen? Unfortunately, among the university faculty and the public at large the response to this discrimination seems to have been a universal shrug and "well- whaddya gonna do". For STEM disciplines we now have a roll out of the Athena sage program in Australia (currently well entrenched in the UK), and gender quotas will likely be enforced by disallowing Universities from applying for research funding if they don't achieve gender benchmarks (except in nursing, education and humanities, of course- that's just fine). I'm expecting this obnoxious ideology to gain more of a foothold here. I'm also leaving the University in disgust.

Title	Will 2019 Be the Year of MRA Lawsuits?
Author	mhandanna
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Date	July 4, 2020 4:26 PM UTC (6 years ago)
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