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'Diversity' nonsense in physics

By Babette Francis - posted Thursday, 16 January 2014


The US Congress also got into the flagellation with Democrat Senator Ron Wyden claiming that Summers "knows he clearly crossed the line". Time magazine ran two stories including a cover feature on the issue.

Despite Summers abject apologies and caving into every demand - he appointed two task forces - on women in the Harvard faculty and on women in engineering, to recruit, promote and support women, it did not placate the feminists. Summers' task forces consisted of 22 women and 5 men - in feminist maths that is equality, so it may actually be the bridges built by the wimmin engineers that need support.

Summers also appointed a Commissioner of Faculty Diversity, but that didn't help either. A no-confidence motion on Summers was passed and he resigned as President of Harvard.

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And therein lies a lesson for Education Minister Christopher Pyne, Kevin Donnelly, Professor Ken Wiltshire, Marko Vojkovic et al - you will never be able to placate the diversity brigade or the feminist sisterhood. So have the courage to do what you think is best to free the national curriculum and education from the shackles of dubious political ideologies. Use logic to refute your critics - this strategy will so infuriate the feminist sisterhood they might even faint and leave you an open battle-field.

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Babette Francis, (BSc.Hons), mother of eight, is the National & Overseas Co-ordinator of Endeavour Forum Inc. an NGO with special consultative status with the Economic & Social Council of the UN. Mrs. Francis is the Australian representative of the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer - www.abortionbreastcancer.com. She lived in India during the Partition of the sub-continent into India and Pakistan, a historical event that she believes was caused by the unwillingness of the Muslim leaders of that era to live in a secular democracy.

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