Comments on: Gender-equity cops are after the sciences https://www.overlawyered.com/2009/10/gender-equity-cops-are-after-the-sciences/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:50:58 +0000 hourly 1 By: GregS https://www.overlawyered.com/2009/10/gender-equity-cops-are-after-the-sciences/comment-page-1/#comment-74354 Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:50:58 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=14404#comment-74354 Makes sense to me! We all know that the first consideration of a student’s potential to excel in crystallography or astrophysics or paleontology is whether or not too many of his classmates have the same kind of junk between their legs as he does.

]]> By: No Name Guy https://www.overlawyered.com/2009/10/gender-equity-cops-are-after-the-sciences/comment-page-1/#comment-74303 Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:06:54 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=14404#comment-74303 What’s good for the gander, is good for the goose.

So long as the number of ladies in female dominated fields is restricted so that the guys can have 1/2 the slots, fine by me.

But then again, I suspect those pushing this notion of discrimination in the hard sciences would find that notion of ‘equity’ hard to swallow.

(In my aero engineering class in the late 80’s / early 90’s there were 4 gals and 50 something guys admitted – at graduation, after the usual attrition it was about 11:1 ratio).

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