Sommers: Will Taxpayers Pay for Gender Seminars?

Christina Hoff Sommers has discovered that some gender activists want to get taxpayer money to try and eliminate gender bias in the sciences:

If there's one word that sums up everything that's gone wrong since the war, it's 'workshop,'" quipped a character in a 1978 Kingsley Amis novel. What would Amis make of "STEMinars"--a term sometimes used by gender activists to describe their workshops on how to overcome bias in the science, technology, engineering, and math professions?

Tomorrow, as it happens, the House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act. The overarching goal of the $85 billion act is to maintain the nation's competitive edge in the global economy, and many of its provisions are uncontroversial: basic research funding for agencies such as the National Science Foundation (NSF) and support for programs that foster excellence in math and science education, for example.

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