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Originally Posted by GGG
So for years when Engineering Enrolement was roughly 10% female was that a failure of women to apply. Female students were not being rejected to have more male students. They simply didn't and still don't apply at the same rates that make students do. Yet there are programs run by the colleges to encourage female enrolement in engineering.
Yet in nursing it has been even more rare for males to enroll. Male students were not being rejected to have more female students. They simply didn't and still don't apply at the same rates that female students do. Yet there are No programs run by the colleges to encourage male enrolement in nursing.
This problem will eventually reveal itself in the lagging data. And this isn't to say programs shouldnt encourage women to go into STEM fields at higher rates. It's that boys face different challanges in navigating the education system and it should looked at how to improve these outcomes.
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From 2010:
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news...rticle1319477/
Absolutely there's tonnes of economic incentive for men to cross the aisle and become represented in female dominated careers. That 1 scholarship proves it.
Places like Oxford should be lauded for extending time for Female students to complete their exams:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/educatio...omens-benefit/
I mean, it shouldn't be surprising that NY Times would post articles that would excoriate and defame Jordan Peterson, who would dare to question their #metoo movement since they paid money for advertisement that should garner them clicks.
http://thehill.com/homenews/media/36...-during-golden
And he's not alone, I mean look at other professors who would deign to question the current iteration of feminism, Janice Fiamengo (
http://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-...public-library) who was also dragged before the Ontario human rights tribunal.
This only tangentially relates to Peterson, if only for the whole right vs left arguments going on.
And why post secondary ivory towers anyways? Let's have this person talk about it: