UNC: Women can’t succeed on their own
Let me get this straight. Government is using my money to patronize me…
I am so sick of patronizing elitist from “institutions of higher learning” who think that women need their help to succeed. I’ll cut to the quick; I don’t want your money, your pity or your help. And my daughters don’t want it either. (And since I’m their mother I can say that) They will succeed or fail on their own merits.
The Denver Business Journal just reported that the University of Northern Colorado (UNC), my alma mater for my graduate degree, will get nearly $1.2 million in taxpayer money “to lead a nationwide program to improve promotion and retention of female college faculty members in science, technology, engineering and math.”
UNC said in a prepared statement:
infuse gender equity content into its existing professional development programs with the goal of cultivating academic leaders who are more knowledgeable about STEM gender equity issues, more able and motivated to address those issues, and thus better positioned to effect positive and transformational change in their own colleges and departments.
I don’t even know what ”STEM gender equity issues” mean. Since when did science, technology, engineering and math become issues of estrogen and testosterone– other than in biology? But I’m sure that somewhere is an affirmative action grant to set me straight.
Does it occur to anyone that women make their own choices? Women who want to go into science, technology, engineering and math will do so. Those who don’t, won’t.
If we are in search of “gender equity,” why not have affirmative action for men who want to be runway models?
Memo to elitist: Stop trying to enable me and my daughters simply because of our double X chromosome. And stop discriminating against my son simply because he was born without it.