This College Professor Made Some Very Disparaging Remarks About Women In STEM At A Recent Conference

Women were not well-suited for careers in historically male-dominated fields, such as engineering, law, and medicine.
His position assumes a meritocracy rather than a system that has and will continue to leverage whiteness and maleness against all other intersections of identity.
Not only does gender not determine a person’s potential, but sex does not determine their gender.
But Yenor’sYenor’s argument is utterly reliant on biologically-disproven sexist assumptions, implying that harmful generalizations are effective when applied to an entirely autonomous group of people.
Yenor is a professor in the university’s politics department and appeared to entirely dismiss his female students’ potential success in the field.
In his speech, he said that “independent” women are “medicated, meddlesome and quarrelsome.”
Besides the implied condescension, a young person aspiring to improve the world around her could potentially take this as a compliment.
After all, how do you make positive change if you are not at least willing to “meddle” in inequitable practices or “quarrel” with those who state that things should remain as they always have, despite issues of prejudice embedded in every traditional academic discipline (including the sciences)?

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His speech also criticized the current American social landscape, which evidently fails to meet his standards, favoring men as the superior gender.
“Our culture is steeped with feminism; it teaches young boys and girls that they are motivated by much the same things and want much the same things.”
It’s almost humorous to unpack this language since I would agree that we are teaching the next generation that they can work toward any goal with enough dedication and preparation.
However, though feminism has risen in popularity as recently as the 2010s, we are still far from a good “steeping” since there are apparently still misogynistic meccas in existence, such as this conference.
Yenor went as far as to say that women should be discouraged from even pursuing a career in engineering, even if they would be higher performers than the men currently occupying the field.
He stated, “Every effort must be made not to recruit women into engineering, but rather to recruit and demand more of men who become engineers. Ditto for med school, and the law, and every trade.”
He seems to acknowledge that there are apparent gaps in the accomplishments in engineering without the skills and knowledge that women have contributed to the field in recent years.
If he is worried about women out-competing men, perhaps they should all remain in the same playing field, so motivation doesn’t decrease.
After all, what are a bunch of complacent engineers going to do if no one is even allowed to challenge their entirely unjustified dominance?
In addition, the fact that he rates “every trade” as beyond women’s reach betrays his ignorance of the leaders in so many American industries, including astronautics, physics, and mathematics.
It seems that in making his argument, this professor has essentially implied that he wishes every American sector to decrease in productivity, the competence of its workforce, and the competitive pressure which produces innovation and creativity.
You can view his speech here.
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