As the O says, so shall it be

On June 20 the White House announced that it would issue guidelines expanding the scope of Title IX “to help increase the number of women in the science, math and technology fields as part of a celebration for the 40-year anniversary of a law prohibiting discrimination in education based on gender.”

http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/06/20/usa-whitehouse-titleix-idINL1E8HKJNC20120620

“New guidelines will also be issued to grant-receiving universities and colleges to help institutions comply with Title IX rules in the science, technology, engineering and math fields.
“In 1972, when Title IX was passed, 43 percent of students enrolling in degree-granting institutions were women, compared to 57 percent of new students in 2010.”

So administration leftists are going to make sure the country has more women with science degrees.

Somehow, that just doesn’t seem logical, with the 43 percent in 1972 and 57 percent in 2010. With that percentage increase, shouldn’t women already outnumber men in science and math?

Depends on the kind of science.

“When college women study science, they tend to gravitate toward biology--about 58 percent of all bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees in biology go to women. In contrast, women earn some 17 percent of bachelor's degrees in engineering and computer science and just over 40 percent of bachelor's degrees in physical sciences and mathematics. The likely reason for this, found in the study The Mathematics of Sex" (2009) by Cornell psychologists Stephen J. Ceci and Wendy M. Williams, is that women tend to be drawn to "organic" fields involving people and living things, whereas men are more interested in the objects and abstractions that are the focus of STEM majors. Aversion to math plays a role too: a University of Bristol study finds that biologists tend not to pay attention to scholarly articles in their field that are packed with mathematical equations.” Charlotte Allen,

http://www.mindingthecampus.com/forum/2012/07/when_college_women_studyscienc.html

But, hey, why should Obamaites let facts stand in the way of feelgood/lookgood stuff?

We need more women in math and science!

Make it so, Number One.

Oh. This isn’t TV?