Insidehighered.com No. 2 Productivity disproportionately affects women

hillarious article No. 2 on insidehighered.com.

Note that as time goes by, feminists’ allegation of gender discrimination is getting more and more specific. Before it was a discrimination against women in higher education. Period. Now it is, in “higher learning institution”, in the field of “academic medicine”, women suffers disproportionately by the “raising expectation” and they “get “consistently fewer” competing renewals grants than men” and “for every dollar a male primary investigator receives, women get 80 cents”. (in the last one they even succeeded in throwing some elements of “gender pay gap” trick.)

It may be true that men get promoted faster in academic medicine field and that men churn out more academic papers and work more productively, but the reason for that maybe is not because of the gender discrimination (when did the latter become evidence of discrimination by the way?) but because since simply men are better in general, and that superiority manifests itself in every aspects of academic career and life. You can keep on discovering almost infinite number of areas where “women are disproportionately affected” or in other words, “women are not as good as men’ in this or that area. Maybe men on average write better papers, better quality of research, better reviews, better at finding and collaborating with other researchers, better at finding opportunities to present their researches, better speech and presentation skills at conference., etc. etc., the list can go on and on. And my guess is that all of this, according to feminists, could be elements that can “disproportionately affect women.” Maybe men are better at more basic academic skills, such as writing composition, researching online, use of computer, use of library and lab, and these of course, would “disproportionately affect women”. Women, isn’t it time to simply admit the obvious?

I am still amazed that the author cites among the “bars” of rising expectation, “number of publications, numbers of collaborators and of graduate students and postdocs, invitations to speak and to present at national and international conferences”. In most people’s view, these would easily viewed as objective evaluation criteria on one’s productivity and excellence. In other words, productivity or excellence disproportionately affects women. I am very sorry.