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Lina Nilsson writes in an op-ed piece in the NYT that she looks with despair at estimates that only about 14 percent of engineers in the work force are women but that there may be a solution to the disparity that is much simpler than targeted recruitment efforts. "An experience here at the University of California, Berkeley, where I teach, suggests that if the content of the work itself is made more societally meaningful, women will enroll in droves," writes Nilsson. "That applies not only to computer engineering but also to more traditional, equally male-dominated fields like mechanical and chemical engineering."
Nilsson says that Blum Center for Developing Economies recently began a new program that, without any targeted outreach, achieved 50 percent female enrollment in just one academic year. In the fall of 2014, UC Berkeley began offering a new Ph.D. minor in development engineering for students doing thesis work on solutions for low-income communities. They are designing affordable solutions for clean drinking water, inventing medical diagnostic equipment for neglected tropical diseases and enabling local manufacturing in poor and remote regions.
According to Nilsson, women seem to be drawn to engineering projects that attempt to achieve societal good and cites MIT, University of Minnesota, Penn State, Santa Clara University, Arizona State, and the University of Michigan that have programs aimed at reducing global poverty and inequality that have achieved similar results. For example, at Princeton, the student chapter of Engineers Without Borders has an executive board that is nearly 70 percent female, reflecting the overall club composition.
"It shows that the key to increasing the number of female engineers may not just be mentorship programs or child care centers, although those are important" concludes Nilsson. "It may be about reframing the goals of engineering research and curriculums to be more relevant to societal needs. It is not just about gender equity — it is about doing better engineering for us all."
(Score: 2, Troll) by Hairyfeet on Wednesday April 29 2015, @05:56PM
You mean like the anti-GGers, who are so racist there is actually a game called SJW or Stormfront [youtube.com] because their shit is SO racist and SO hate filled its hard to tell the difference between their posts and your average white supremacist? Hell look at the SJW posts from the Hugo awards article, where one even called for the extermination of the white race and called anybody that didn't support (reverse) racism a Nazi, or try Gamerghazi, where DOXXing is SOP.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.
(Score: 2) by mojo chan on Thursday April 30 2015, @12:07PM
Check out the IRC logs that GamerGate themselves published, confirmed authentic by a separate publishing of the same logs collected by Quinn. They openly talk about setting up the false flag operations that are the subject of that video. They even mention some of the puppet accounts by name.
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(Score: 0, Troll) by Hairyfeet on Thursday April 30 2015, @04:58PM
Hell you think THAT is bad? Go look at some of the posts on the Stop Webhate site (which boy are the SJWs mad their little "boo hoo we are being persecuted" blew right back in their faces with the thing being filled with their racist and misandrist shit) where they have tweets from fricking Zoe Quinn herself advocating DOXXing and pointing others to Helldump which is a site dedicated to DOXXing.
You want to know what is hilarious Mojo Chan? Despite my little modbombing SJW stalkers here (look at my posting history sometime, you can watch posts yo-yo from +5 to -1 and back sometimes 6 or 7 times in the course of a couple days, sometimes even within hours) while calling me a Nazi (while he called for the extermination of the white race, dafuq?) I'm actually a fourth generation socialist, going back all the way to my great grandfather who was a card carrying socialist during the depression. I had never heard the name SJW or had a clue until my gay son was attacked, threatened, even had to make a new FB account as they kept trying to break into his causing it to get locked repeatedly for daring to say "having reporters be ethical and not have conflicts of interest is good no matter what subject they report on" so I thought "surely this is a misunderstanding, they are supposedly left wing, I'm a socialist, so it should be easy to talk to these people and clear this all up".
OH FUCK NO, I see now why they play "SJW or Stormfront" because frankly they have more in common with the Aryan Brotherhood than any other group I've ever seen! I have NEVER in the nearly 30 years I've been on the net seen a group soooo racist and hate filled in my entire life, I've seen them tell a disabled man he was a fat fuck who should die of cancer for simply saying that throwing threats and names is never productive, I myself has had to deal with a cyberstalker across multiple sites (as well as modbombing constantly here) for saying that calling everyone racist and every man rape apologists is trivializing both real racism and rape. The SJWs have to be the most nasty vile group I have ever had the misfortune to come across and now understand completely why Gamergate exists, its because these nasty hate filled narcissists will pick a target and try to wreck it by bringing all their ultra radical racist sexist bullshit into it!
This is why I'm happy to point this out at every opportunity so that their MSM lies can be exposed for the propaganda that it is and theycan be exposed as what they are, vile, spoiled upper middle class white people that have taken the "white man's burden" of speaking for every non white race and every female white or not on the planet. Are you a part of those groups and don't support them? Well fuck you you are an "unperson" that is either an "uncle tom" that is "cooning" or you literally do not exist and are merely a sock puppet or a CIS white male.....which is funny as hell because more than 70% of the SJWs are self hating CIS white males!
But you should be warned Mojo Chan that this site does exactly jack and squat when it comes to modbombing and cyberstalking so if you speak out against them expect to be modbombed and/or cyberstalked by them, since my grandfather and great uncle both suffered their entire lives from wounds they got fighting fascists in WWII I will NEVER back down nor be silenced, but be aware you are painting a target on your back if you speak anything but the political narrative here.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.