Women Redefining Leadership in STEM and IT

I think it's time to celebrate the USA. A place were the individual can flourish, regardless of gender, race, religion, or any other label that the leftists brand us with. A place where all have an equal opportunity to pursue what makes them happy. For some, it will be homosexual sex; for others... money. And everything in between.

This is the land of the free; and the land of the free, and the land of the equal, are two different things.

I'll deal with poverty, but please give me the freedom to get there on my own.

A lack of female representation?

What utter bullshit!

This is America: We are not a land of victims. We are the land of opportunity.

Black, white, male, female, gay, straight.....AMERICA is the land of leaders; not whiny victims of some invisible assault.

If we become a country of people that cry in our f**king milk, we deserve whatever we get.

Wanna be respected?

Earn it. Nobody owes you a damned thing. Get over it.

I'm sorry Chelsey. Perhaps I spoke too soon.

If you don't mind....

How much did IHS pay you last month, and how much did you earn for IHS?

Maybe it only appears that you're whining. The numbers will tell.

Edit: Women are the most underused resource?

Hillary needs to spoon feed that line to Monica!

As I was going through school as a kid, I knew of not one female student who was interested in the sciences and engineering. Not one. My high school had 4,500 students at one point and had several very active science clubs. Were there any girls in those clubs? Nope. Why not? No interest.

At the same time I knew of scores of male students - in the exact same environment - who were very interested in science and who joined those clubs. A number of girls scorned us for our membership in the clubs. 4,500 students and not one girl was interested.

When I was in engineering school, there were three female students in my classes, pursuing degrees in electrical engineering. Two of them dropped out to become business majors.

If females are underrepresented in the engineering fields, it is quite possible this is due to lack of interest?

No matter what we do in terms of promotion, legislation, corporate culture or what-have-you, if there is no interest, there is no participation.

Nobody had to promote science and engineering to capture my interest. Nobody had to promote it to any of my nerd friends to capture their interest. The sciences and engineering as professions were no more hidden from girls than they were from boys - both genders had the same access to information, but with different results: boys were interested, girls were not.

Females under represented? As compared to what? Under-represented in terms of females with a genuine interest in the sciences and engineering they're not. Not by a long shot.