tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8148573551417578681.post3588321365273265524..comments2024-03-27T19:47:13.475-07:00Comments on Dark Buzz: Gender fairness, rather than gender biasRogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03474078324293158376noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8148573551417578681.post-44938824165154308782018-01-15T08:25:48.087-08:002018-01-15T08:25:48.087-08:00Tilting hiring until it artificially favors one ge...Tilting hiring until it artificially favors one gender over another is not an improvement. While I was taking a programming class at a community college, My instructor informed us we could get extra credit for entering the STEM fair. When I expressed interest, after much beating around the bush (your grades are already high enough, you don't need the extra credit, etc.) I was informed I was not really supposed to enter the stem fair, I was neither female nor an officially approved minority.<br /><br /> If the government needs to tell you to 'like science', tell you what career to pursue or take interest in, and gives you gender and race preferential hiring, and educational loans in order to check a box that they aren't 'sexist' or 'o-phobic', then the end result is going to be a governmental social engineering project for mediocre scientists.CFTnoreply@blogger.com