George Will?s latest Newsweek column examines the absurdity of the gender grievance movement:
The president wants Congress to pass the Paycheck Fairness Act. It would further enrich a Democratic constituency?trial lawyers?by saying that differences in pay between men and women cannot be based on differences of education, training, and experience unless there is a ?business necessity??an invitation to litigation.
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The gender-grievance industry?the financial-reform legislation mandates 29 new offices to favor women?has a new project. National Journal reports that the administration is ?promising to litigate, regulate, and legislate the nation?s universities until women obtain half of all academic degrees in science and technology and hold half the faculty positions in those areas.?
Although women receive more B.A.s, M.A.s, and Ph.D.s than men in biology and biomedical sciences, not enough women want what the administration wants them to want. There are fewer women choosing to enter many science and engineering programs than the administration wishes, and it assumes that the reason is discrimination against women. To which [Hudson Institute senior fellow] Furchtgott-Roth replies: Anti-women discrimination even at women?s colleges?
At Bryn Mawr, 4 percent of 2010 graduates majored in chemistry, 2 percent in computer science. At Smith, half of 1 percent were physics majors; 1.4 percent majored in computer science. In 2009 at Barnard, one third of 1 percent majored in physics and astronomy.
