Title IX Science Quotas for Women - A White House Goal

[WesternPilgrim]

Originally Posted by Toyman at Jewel Lake

The best part of women in engineering...for the most part they are rational, smart and not drama queens.

True, true. And yet they still tend to be very feminine. I always liked the ladies in engineering.

[HappyTexan]

Originally Posted by WesternPilgrim

True, true. And yet they still tend to be very feminine. I always liked the ladies in engineering.

The guys liked that I decorated the halls for holidays and arranged birthday lunches.
I even arranged a dept outing and we went on a pontoon boat around the lake with coolers full of beer rather than a nice sit down lunch in some restaurant

When I announced I was retiring I got lots of .."But who is going to .... for us?"
I told them to go find a girl in another dept and wine and dine her to transfer

[WesternPilgrim]

Originally Posted by HappyTexan

The guys liked that I decorated the halls for holidays and arranged birthday lunches.
I even arranged a dept outing and we went on a pontoon boat around the lake with coolers full of beer rather than a nice sit down lunch in some restaurant

When I announced I was retiring I got lots of .."But who is going to .... for us?"
I told them to go find a girl in another dept and wine and dine her to transfer

LOL, that's beautiful.

Must've been hard to lose you!

[HappyTexan]

Originally Posted by WesternPilgrim

LOL, that's beautiful.

Must've been hard to lose you!

On the other hand though, I made a name for myself with regards to debugging spaghetti code and was sought out for help which I always made time for.

[WesternPilgrim]

Originally Posted by HappyTexan

On the other hand though, I made a name for myself with regards to debugging spaghetti code and was sought out for help which I always made time for.

No doubt. But why is this "the other hand"? It's the same you.

[HappyTexan]

Originally Posted by WesternPilgrim

No doubt. But why is this "the other hand"? It's the same you.

True. What the WH wants to do with quotas is but part of a bigger picture of how they want to get an "in" with colleges. They have destroyed K-12. College is the last bastion of education because there is no slack given. You either can or you drop out. There is no "everyone is a winner" in college.
There is healthy competition to be the best because when those companies come recruiting on campus your GPA is what gets you that interview.
I've done campus recruiting (because I was a female engineer) and we had 2 piles of submitted resumes/transcripts..3.0 GPA pile and "the rest".

College is for the best and brightest in all the fields of study. Don't water it down to get some diversity numbers.