"This is a quiet revolution"

a href=”http://www.american.com/archive/2008/march-april-magazine-contents/why-can2019t-a-woman-be-more-like-a-man” So says Christina Hoff Summers /a about the push for gender equity in the hard sciences (thanks to the several readers who emailed the article):br /br /blockquoteFew academic scientists know anything about the equity crusade. Most have no idea of its power, its scope, and the threats that they may soon be facing. The business commu­nity and citizens at large are completely in the dark. This is a quiet revolution. Its weapons are government reports that are rarely seen; amendments to federal bills that almost no one reads; small, unnoticed, but dramatically con­sequential changes in the regulations regarding government grants; and congressional hearings attended mostly by true believers.br /br /American scientific excellence is a precious national resource. It is the foundation of our economy and of the nation’s health and safety. Norman Augustine, retired CEO of Lockheed Martin, and Burton Richter, Nobel laureate in physics, once pointed out that MIT alone—its faculty, alumni, and staff—started more than 5,000 companies in the past 50 years. Will an academic science that is quota-driven, gender-balanced, cooperative rather than competitive, and less time-consuming produce anything like these results? So far, no one in Congress has even thought to ask./blockquotebr /br /a href=”http://www.american.com/archive/2008/march-april-magazine-contents/why-can2019t-a-woman-be-more-like-a-man”Read the article/a, for although long, it is very relevant to understanding the dynamics of how a href=”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equity_feminism”gender feminists /ause the system to give preferences and goodies to women with little regard to whether they are interested in the physical sciences or not.