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posted by on Wednesday January 11 2017, @05:19PM   Printer-friendly
from the I'm-not-moving-to-Detroit dept.

General Motors has announced a new partnership with education nonprofit Girls Who Code that's intended to encourage more young women to pursue STEM subjects. The auto manufacturer will offer up a $250,000 grant to help fund after-school STEM clubs in schools, universities, and community centers.

"Becoming an engineer paved the way for my career," said GM CEO Mary Barra in a statement posted to the company's website. "It's one of the reasons I am passionate about promoting STEM education to students everywhere. Partnering with Girls Who Code is one more step in GM's commitment to inspiring and growing diverse future leaders."

[...] GM and Girls Who Code are pursuing this collaboration is [sic] response to the decreasing proportion of women in jobs related to computing, even as the field continues to grow. In 1995, 37 percent of the computing workforce was comprised of women, but today that has shrunk to 24 percent.


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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by Arik on Thursday January 12 2017, @02:49AM

    by Arik (4543) on Thursday January 12 2017, @02:49AM (#452822) Journal
    Of course it's been criticized, it was horribly shoddy research. But just for the sake of argument let's say it's not, let's say that's true. Boys face far more formidable problems than that in school. It's an interesting measure of just how privileged women in our society are, that whenever the subject of their 'oppression' comes up the forms of oppression turn out to be such nonsense. Talk to people who are actually oppressed and you will find they have rather more substantial complaints than 'people think I'm dominating the conversation if I'm speaking 30% of the time.'
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  • (Score: 2) by http on Thursday January 12 2017, @06:32AM

    by http (1920) on Thursday January 12 2017, @06:32AM (#452856)

    The forms of the discrimination (oppression, you call it) are only one axis of the problem. The other axis of the problem, the one that makes it into a huge fuckng deal, is that for girls in school, discrimination is everywhere, every day, multiple times per day, from day one. One mosquito? No big deal. Ten thousand mosquitos? Big deal. Living in a swamp? Bigger deal. Your attempt to minimize the problem with the irrelevant "but other people have it worse" is just... juvenile. And I'm moderately curious as to what you believe the "more formidable" problems boys face are. Fun fact: I agree with you that boys face particular problems in school, but we might disagree on both why and the extent.

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    • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 12 2017, @02:02PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 12 2017, @02:02PM (#452934)

      Haha. Yeah, the group punishments were so discriminatory against girls. All the boys had to keep their heads on their desks because a couple boys in the back of the classroom were being disruptive. The girls get treated as individuals. The policy that let girls wander the halls during indoor recess and use the gym if they wanted but kept boys in their homeroom were so oppressive of women. When I started a computer club and then got railroaded on trumped up evidence and gaslighted, that was so discriminatory to girls. Years later when a girl made front page news because she started the district's first computer club, that was so discriminatory to girls.

      Your genitals better be mutilated nice and tight for women's sexual pleasure. You better be circumcised so you don't transmit your HPV boy cooties to women, you rapist. We need to mutilate you as an infant too so that your 3 year old rapist ass feels nothing but excruciating pain. That will teach you. No, we can't immunize girls against HPV, because that would be sexualizing them. KNOW YOUR ROLE YOU SEX OBJECT.