Physics World Makes Feminist Demands

Democrats are counting on voters selecting the next president based on gender. Why not fund scientific research on the same principle?

Via Physics World:

Investments in “big-science” projects, whether it’s the next particle collider or a new synchrotron, are often justified in terms of the benefits for science, such as the discovery of a new particle or the opening of a new vista on the cosmos. The positive impact of large facilities on society and the economy are often cited too, such as spin-off technologies in medical physics. Gender equality, however, is rarely acknowledged as a necessary objective when building these multi-billion-euro facilities or investing in the research required to develop them. That lack of focus on gender equality is something that I believe must change.

In all seriousness, this is from a science magazine, not the editorial page of a second-rate college newspaper. Moonbattery is a truly totalitarian ideology; there is no escape from it anywhere.

The lack of gender-based targets for big science is laid bare in a tool created as part of the European Union’s Horizon 2020 funding programme. Produced by the Research Infrastructure Impact Assessment Pathways project, it assesses the impact of research infrastructures on the economy and society via 122 “impact indicators” in four areas: human resources; policy; society; and economy and innovation. But only one indicator – contribution to gender balance in society – gives any mention to gender equality.

A cultural Marxist may well pout. But there is hope:

The EU’s €96bn Horizon Europe programme – the successor to Horizon 2020 – now requires that all benefiting organizations, many of which participate in big-science projects, have a gender equality plan. Several industry sectors are also doing lots to integrate equality, diversity and inclusion into human resources…

When scientific funding is specifically targeted toward research conducted by blacks with Down syndrome, the scientific community can congratulate itself on having caught up to the makers of Barbi — except that by then Mattel will have pushed political correctness even deeper into self-parody.

In the meantime, Physics World calls for “gender budgeting,” which entails discrimination against men in hiring, pay equity, and budgets that are “earmarked to help staff achieve a work–life balance.”

Mandating the same pay for less work is known among moonbats as “social justice.” To get an idea of how likely this mentality is to produce excellence, consider who the Democrats are running for president.

On a tip from Lyle.

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