Melana Zyla Vickers writes on the increasing gender gap on college campuses in the Weekly Standard. This subject has many angles that I don't have time for this morning, but this is a significant problem. Boys tend to be more oriented to science, engineering and math and the loss of guys in our educational system can only mean trouble longer run for the economic capabilities of our country. (I can assure you that girl fear of quantitative work is alive and well based on what the nine-year old Bunny Rabbit is already evincing.) The emphasis on empowering women and girls has swung the pendulum too far (and I speak as a beneficiary of that trend thirty plus years ago).
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December 28, 2005
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I'm so sorry for you. My daughter is 14, is excellent with blueprints and builds robots from scratch-- plans on being an engineer. Why is that women on the Right don't believe in their own daughters -- do you want them to fail, or is it that you only want them to succeed in certain stereotypical areas?
I'm not trying to be contrarian. It's just that when I visit so-called 'conservative' website, I am struck by how much self-loathing there is among women. Why is that?
Posted by: drindl | January 03, 2006 at 03:51 PM