Caltech, long a bastion of male students, enrolls first class of majority women
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Re: Caltech, long a bastion of male students, enrolls first class of majority women
#2I think The Last Psychatrist wrote, when women move in, it's a sign that power has moved on.
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Found the quote:
"when more women enter a field, it means less men did, and if the men stopped going there, where did they go? [...] I don't want to be cynical, but boy oh boy is it hard not to observe that at the very moment in our history when we have the most women in the Senate, Congress is perceived to be pathetic, bickering, easily manipulated and powerless [...] I know it's not causal, I am saying the reverse: that if some field keeps the trappings of power but loses actual power, women enter it in droves and men abandon it like the Roanoke Colony. Again we must ask the question: if power seeking men aren't running for Senate, where did they go?"
https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2013/01/no_self-respecting_w...
Wow, what a disservice to women to keep up the charade, didn't think there were so many women haters on HN.
Re: Caltech, long a bastion of male students, enrolls first class of majority women
#3I think The Last Psychatrist wrote, when women move in, it's a sign that power has moved on. [Edit] Found the quote: "when more women enter a field, it means less men did, and if the men stopped going there, where did they go? [...] I don't want to be cynical, but boy oh boy is it hard not to observe that at the very moment in our history when we have the most women in the Senate, Congress is perceived to be pathetic…
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Re: Caltech, long a bastion of male students, enrolls first class of majority women
#4I think The Last Psychatrist wrote, when women move in, it's a sign that power has moved on. [Edit] Found the quote: "when more women enter a field, it means less men did, and if the men stopped going there, where did they go? [...] I don't want to be cynical, but boy oh boy is it hard not to observe that at the very moment in our history when we have the most women in the Senate, Congress is perceived to be pathetic…
Do you reference that quote to imply that Caltech has somehow become diminished?
What is the intent of your comment?
Re: Caltech, long a bastion of male students, enrolls first class of majority women
#5The overall gender imbalance in American higher education is now just as bad as when Title IX was first implemented, only in the opposite direction.
What's interesting is this is deliberately excluded from many metrics of gender inequality, eg the UN defines inequality as "fewer women in college than men" so even 100% women and 0% men would be graded as "more equal" than 51% men and 49% women. Pretty Orwellian.
Re: Caltech, long a bastion of male students, enrolls first class of majority women
#6Caltech didn't even admit women until 1970.
Re: Caltech, long a bastion of male students, enrolls first class of majority women
#7The overall gender imbalance in American higher education is now just as bad as when Title IX was first implemented, only in the opposite direction. What's interesting is this is deliberately excluded from many metrics of gender inequality, eg the UN defines inequality as "fewer women in college than men" so even 100% women and 0% men would be graded as "more equal" than 51% men and 49% women. Pretty Orwellian.
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#8I think The Last Psychatrist wrote, when women move in, it's a sign that power has moved on. [Edit] Found the quote: "when more women enter a field, it means less men did, and if the men stopped going there, where did they go? [...] I don't want to be cynical, but boy oh boy is it hard not to observe that at the very moment in our history when we have the most women in the Senate, Congress is perceived to be pathetic…
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#9The overall gender imbalance in American higher education is now just as bad as when Title IX was first implemented, only in the opposite direction. What's interesting is this is deliberately excluded from many metrics of gender inequality, eg the UN defines inequality as "fewer women in college than men" so even 100% women and 0% men would be graded as "more equal" than 51% men and 49% women. Pretty Orwellian.
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Would this question ever have worked the other way?
Re: Caltech, long a bastion of male students, enrolls first class of majority women
#10The overall gender imbalance in American higher education is now just as bad as when Title IX was first implemented, only in the opposite direction. What's interesting is this is deliberately excluded from many metrics of gender inequality, eg the UN defines inequality as "fewer women in college than men" so even 100% women and 0% men would be graded as "more equal" than 51% men and 49% women. Pretty Orwellian.
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Have humans fundamentally changed since 50 years ago?
Was there something fundamentally wrong with women 50 years ago that we "fixed"?