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ArticlesMarch 20, 2024
College students assigned project to "correct" what professor calls "gender bias" On Wikipedia
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Today I learned there is a “systemic bias” of “women on Wikipedia” and that some people have decided to combat the “imbalance in the representation of men and women in STEM.”
Since it’s relevant, less than 25 percent of engineering majors and not even 20 percent of computer science majors are women. Because of this, you would think that there are fewer “biographies of female scientists” on Wikipedia, given that they don’t tend to prefer STEM majors, but none of that matters in the pursuit of equity.
In other news, Students at Meredith College chose to enroll in a “Women in Science” class. And no, there does not appear to be a “Men in Science” class even though men have made nearly all significant scientific advances in history, as that would be sexist.
As part of a project, students were given an assignment to write articles on Wikipedia to combat the “imbalance in the representation of men and women in STEM,” even though women consistently prefer to enroll in other majors outside of STEM.
A Meredith College biology professor is working to “correct gender bias” on Wikipedia by having her students write new entries about female scientists for the online encyclopedia.
The project is part of Professor Natasha Butz’s “Women in Science” class – a subject the private North Carolina college deems to be so important that it recently decided to offer the class more often, according to a news article on the college’s website.
Butz, an assistant professor of biological sciences, gave her fall class the assignment to write an article for one of two projects Wikipedia projects: WikiProject Women Scientists and Under-representation of Science and Women in Africa, the article states.
The WikiProject Women Scientists is “dedicated to ensuring quality and coverage of biographies of female scientists” as part of a larger effort by Wikipedia to “counter and remedy the systemic bias with women on Wikipedia.”
Similarly, Under-representation of science and women in Africa aims at addressing the underrepresentation of women in science by encouraging people to “write Wikipedia biographies of South African women scientists,” according to its Wikipedia page.
Butz told Meredith’s news department the “Women in Science” course is “relevant” as a means of correcting an “imbalance in the representation of men and women in STEM.”
These efforts are reportedly all due to a "2021 survey that found that only 17% of biographies on Wikipedia."
One of the most irritating things about Progressives and the way they approach their made-up "inequity" is that they have absolutely no idea how to do basic arithmetic. You don't just take any scenario and compare it by population. That is not how math works. For this specific instance, if you wanted to truly get the most fair comparison, you would compare it to the amount of women scientists. Considering about 20 percent of women represent STEM majors, the 17 percent of biographies would be an extremely fair representation. Especially considering that we know the number has likely increased in the last three years.
But again, Progressives hate facts and they hate reality. That is why they refuse to do basic first-grade math and would rather just make things up like an “imbalance in the representation of men and women in STEM" to get points for their desperate attempt to virtue signal more nonsense to the masses.
That said, the fact students chose to enroll in a class titled "Women in Science" is enough of a scandal on its own considering the amount they likely paid to be indoctrinated by someone who does not even know how to do basic arithmetic. But there really is no better representation of America's higher education system than that.
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