More Women in Science Please

Having been a community journalist I am quite familiar with the effects of Title IX of the Education Act on the public school sports programs. Boys have their own locker room, showers and etcetera? Girls get theirs too--no matter the cost--or both programs are cancelled. Summer boys football camp? Better be a summer girls sports program too. Same number of instructors, availability of equipment and opportunities for both sexes, no exceptions or no more federal money.
I have seen entire school buildings remodeled so the boy's football team didn't lose it's astroturf money.
It's a shame there has not been as much enforcement on the academic side of that law, but maybe that's about to change.
Listen to this from a story on CNN.com:


(Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon) Wyden and Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-California, last year requested a report looking at whether women are receiving equal opportunities in math, science and engineering under Title IX of the Education Act. The report by the Government Accountability Office found inadequate federal enforcement of Title IX, which prohibits sex discrimination in all aspects of federally funded education programs, including academics.
"At a time when our country is in need of more scientists and engineers, and when women and girls are most underrepresented in the hard sciences, the time to close this gender gap is now," Wyden said.



(Read the entire story here.)

It's hard to believe we're living in 21st Century American when we're still fighting for equal rights for women. Hopefully this problem will be fixed quick, fast and in a hurry; Before my daughter starts school and the administrators have to start dealing with me...