Title IX Termagants

Not content to merely disrupt college sports with federal Title IX rules that mandate parity between men’s and women’s sports whether the ladies want to play or not, feminists are trying to feminize science, even if women do not want to pursue it as a career.

As I pointed out in an article in The American Enterprise magazine back in 2005, the National Science Foundation gives grants to female engineering students far in excess of the percentage of the profession, or for that matter the student body in the field that they make up. Now the NSF is breaking new ground in bestowing its gender-bending national government grants.

“Wasteful spending abounds,” Christina Hoff Sommers, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute observes. “NSF ADVANCE programs have co-sponsored the Vagina Monologues (at the University of Puerto Rico), feminist Interactive Theater Plays based on the ‘Theater of the Oppressed’ (at the University of Michigan), and de facto quota programs for women (Cornell’s stated goal is to have ‘at least 30 % women’ faculty in hard sciences by 2015, a tremendous increase compared to today.)”

“NSF ADVANCE at the University of Puerto Rico at Humacao hired Esther Vicente as a consultant for diversity and legal adviser: she is President of the Western Hemisphere Region of the International Planned Parenthood and co-author of the book Abortion in Puerto Rico.”

Now, if only these geniuses would figure out that they are trying to create more opportunities for women while making sure that there are fewer females. Additionally, you may have also noticed that this largesse is being conferred by a Republican administration.

Malcolm A. Kline is the executive director of Accuracy in Academia.