If, like me, you couldn’t make it to Colorado Springs last week, Calla Cofield has highlights.
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Valerie Insinna has the story on Tory’s choice in engines. Aerojet Rocketdyne has to have fingers crossed in the hope that BE-4 testing doesn’t go well.
With regards to Gwynne Shotwell’s speech: I’m really, really tired of hearing about women’s struggles in such and such industry. Men have bent over backwards to help women in their respective industries. Any word of thanks? Nope.
Women generally don’t go into male dominated industries because, gasp, they aren’t interested. Yet, meanwhile, men lose out on scholarships and hirings due to preferential treatment to women.
It isn’t 1920 anymore. Think about that, Gwynne.
I’m with you on that one Jon. Sick of it. Sick of the unequal pay issue – as PRACTICED by Obama, Warren and HRC….
Sick of how women are purportedly kept in the kitchen.
Sick of the fantasy that women have to work twice as hard as men to get somewhere. Where I work there’s plenty of women scientists all up and down the food chain.
Jon, your comment would be more persuasive if you were Shotwell’s professional peer in any way. I wonder why you don’t you think that Shotwell is in a much better position to know how women (and men) are doing in engineering fields than you are? I’m not referring to her gender here. Shotwell may take an interest in the subject because of her gender, but I think she is whole lot more likely to know about what it is like for a woman in a male dominated field (in 2017 and not 1920) than you are because she is the president of one of the world’s most interesting and inspiring engineering firms.
Ah the appeal to authority…
one of several refuges use by incompetents.
Exactly, Gregg. I sure hope Bob never criticizes Trump. In no way is he a peer to the President.
Bob:
Did you read Shotwell’s comments? I have been around women in many areas of, as Gregg says, the food chain. I have not found any area of sexism against women. I can, however, find many areas of sexism against men. In the university and in many professional areas, there is anti-male sexism, all in the name of female “empowerment.”
Shotwell got where she is today by working hard. She has not worked 200% harder than a man to get there. But she has worked harder than many people (men and women), which is why she is at the top.
By the way Bob, as feminists say, the future is female, why are they always victims?
A jocular battle of the sexes is one thing but when schools and government institutions devote so many monetary and status resources in a battle to see that one gender has better outcomes than the other, it becomes a cancer in our society. For “women” to win this way means that men have to lose.
Instead we should have a society that encourages both females and males. We should want everyone to do well in school and then professionally and to have the freedom to choose that path.
Do Democrats ever realize how damaging their identity politics are to our society?
AJR needs to uncross their fingers and get them busy on the AR1. Show everybody that they’ve still got their mojo.
Acta Non Verba.
Can anyone attend this symposium?
Anyone willing to pony up the (high) registration fee. I usually get media credentials.