Laughing in the face of the Office for Civil Rights and the Title IX law against sex discrimination, MIT continues throwing money at women in its quest to socially engineer “gender equity” in every field of science and engineering.
Diversity experts have long lamented that female STEM PhDs don’t file enough patents to keep up with their male counterparts, nor do they launch as many startups. This can only be caused by systemic misogyny and discrimination.
And so, a quarter million dollars will be awarded to the winner, $100,000 to the runners-up, and a $10,000 participation trophy for every professor who competes in the MIT Faculty Founder Initiative. Applicants possessing a Y chromosome are disqualified.
“It’s not enough to feed the pipeline by goosing MIT’s admit rate for women to be twice that of men,” explained Anantha Chandrakasan, dean of MIT’s School of Engineering. “Without systemic support from graduate school admissions to postdoc positions to faculty tenure to venture capital funding and career success, it’s not fair to expect women to succeed in STEM on their own merit and initiative. In 50 years, maybe.”
The Science ™ shows that “if female faculty founded startups at the same rate as their male counterparts, there would be 40 more biotech companies.” QED.
Roll out the money truck!