Comment on Women in STEM
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I always take posts like this with a big grain of salt. Yes, women were oppressed and in many places still are, but posts like these tend to stretch and exaggerate the truth because they WANT to find oppression of women. They WANT the fight, and they want the fight to still be here and burning brightly today to justify actions many would find questionable at best.
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Okay, how was the truth stretched here?
It should be 50%.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Payne was credited by Russel, who is not the one who told her not to publish, and she became a Department Chair.
Josselyn Bell actually argued against the point of this meme in her own words decades ago.
Lisa Meitner said Otto deserved that Nobel Prize.
Franklin might have recieved the prize in person if she were alive at the time (dead people do not qualify to recieve it).
Then ask women to enter stem, you and I do not have the authority to force them to do anything they don’t want to do.
gwen@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
bullshit will fly around the world while the truth is still putting on its boots
you_dont_666@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Why should it be 50%?
Comment105@lemm.ee 2 months ago
For the same reason 50% of mechanics should be women.
Equality.
you_dont_666@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That’s not equality. Equality is that you have the same rights, possibilities, opportunities etc. Not that the outcome is the same.
weker01@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Equality of outcome is bullshit. Everyone should be free to choose what they want to do in life.