{"id":202124,"date":"2020-02-08T07:27:29","date_gmt":"2020-02-08T07:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=202124"},"modified":"2020-02-10T07:53:24","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T07:53:24","slug":"science-education-is-being-watered-down-to-meet-quotas-of-more-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=202124","title":{"rendered":"SCIENCE education is being watered down to meet quotas of \u201cmore women\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8230;in an age when Leftists say the very definition of a woman is meaningless<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Transgender-Symbols-Colors.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-197268\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Transgender-Symbols-Colors-768x432.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Transgender-Symbols-Colors-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Transgender-Symbols-Colors-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Transgender-Symbols-Colors.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">JD Heyes \u2013 Gender News Jan 17, 2020<\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">When you finally figure out that the objective of the modern Left \u2014 in America and elsewhere \u2014 is to create as much chaos within societies as possible, you can understand why everything they do, every policy for which they advocate, every political \u2018remedy\u2019 they push, is one giant exercise in hypocrisy and irony.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">For decades Leftists pushed for more equality for women, not because our Constitution did not recognize that all of us are equal or because there weren\u2019t enough laws on the books providing protections against women being discriminated against, but because it was politically expedient to be known as the \u2018party of women,\u2019 given that females are a huge voting bloc.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Included in the push for more equality for women were demands for them to be given their own sports leagues, to be promoted within corporations, to be able to head up government agencies, and to lead entire nations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Western societies are too patriarchal, especially American society, so the Left has of late been pushing to open up entire fields of endeavor and study to more women. Opening up more STEM fields \u2014 science, technology, engineering, and mathematics occupations \u2014 to the female gender is all the rage now on the Left (as if there are barriers to women joining these fields in the first place \u2014 there are not; most women just choose to do other things).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In any event, <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/mises.org\/power-market\/closing-gender-gap-any-cost-threatens-academic-integrity-stem-education\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>as noted by the Mises Institute<\/strong><\/span><\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><em>The National Bureau of Economic Research recently published a study which concluded that the grading policies for STEM classes contribute to the gender gap in the STEM field.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><em>The study finds that STEM classes, on average, assign lower grades compared to non-STEM classes and that this tends to deter women enrolling. Women \u2014 who value higher grades more than men \u2014 are apparently put off by the lower average grades in STEM subjects. This is despite the fact that \u201cwomen have higher grades in both STEM and non-STEM classes,\u201d according to the study. The study also shows that women are more likely to switch out of STEM than men.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">As a remedy, the study\u2019s authors recommend increasing female participation in STEM fields by essentially lowering grading standards. That, they believe, will \u201cincrease female enrollment by 11.3 percent,\u201d Mises\u2019 Atilla Sulker writes<\/span>.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Gender-based outcomes don\u2019t matter if gender doesn\u2019t<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">While the study lays out the details, its authors do not explain why this should even be a goal. But maybe goals and objectives don\u2019t really matter anyway, because the Left has created its own controversy in this by <em>also<\/em> pushing the notion that men and women don\u2019t have to claim they are men and women, but instead can claim to be whatever sex they want (or none at all, as though that\u2019s even realistic).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">With the introduction of \u201ctransgender activism,\u201d American Leftists of this generation are destroying all of the work and progress American Leftists of previous generations have made in the advancement of women. (Related: <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newstarget.com\/2020-01-02-tennis-legend-speaks-against-transgender-athletes-lgbtq-agenda.html\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Tennis legend Margaret Court speaks out against transgender athletes, says LGBTQ agenda is \u201cof the devil\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">By embracing a radical transgender agenda, American Leftists now champion the insertion of biological men into traditional female-dominated spheres <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.naturalnews.com\/2019-10-22-female-athlete-speaks-out-against-transgender-agenda.html\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>to include sports competitions<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, professions, academia and other aspects of society.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In this vein, the solution to the alleged \u201cproblem\u201d of too few females going into the STEM fields is to simply encourage more men who <em>claim<\/em> to be women to pursue such occupations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">It\u2019s the ultimate hypocrisy and chaos: Complain for years that a patriarchic, misogynistic society either left women behind or treated them like second-class citizens, then embrace a movement that makes a mockery of the gender while blowing up bridges to every inroad made by the Left on behalf of women over the years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">There may be lots of societal reasons why women don\u2019t go into STEM fields as often as men. But gender-basing outcomes won\u2019t matter much if we\u2019re not allowed to stick to biological genders.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>Sources include:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/mises.org\/power-market\/closing-gender-gap-any-cost-threatens-academic-integrity-stem-education\">Mises.org<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.naturalnews.com\/2019-10-22-female-athlete-speaks-out-against-transgender-agenda.html\">NaturalNews.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gender.news\/2020-01-17-science-education-watered-down-quotas-more-women.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Formerly rigorous standards are being relaxed in order to meet gender quotas<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":197268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Commentary","category-Miscellaneous"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=202124"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202127,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202124\/revisions\/202127"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/197268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=202124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=202124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=202124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}