few days ago atencón drew on a English researcher who complained in a letter to the editor of The Land of the mechanisms of positive discrimination. Well, yesterday was a response - through another letter the same day - Paul Flora, President of the Association of Women Researchers and Technologists:
course, has come a long way since the nineteenth century Moebius judge " the intellectual inferiority of women not only as a reality, but a necessity for the continuation of the species. " The intellectual capacity of women is now recognized similar to that of men, depending on their genes and training, and not dependent on sex.
However, real possibilities for women to advance in the field of research and science are still well below those of men in our still very male-centered society. The letter of Mr. Mariano Gomez published in the Journal of 14.01.2005, apparently outraged that the call for aid for research projects MEC (BOE 28/12/2004), referring to that "between projects proposed for funding by the Selection Committee will evaluate the participation of women members in the research team (as principal investigators or as team participants )...", I think it reflects the reaction of someone not knowledgeable of the subject and tending to stagnation.
Nowhere was the call to discriminate speech research projects by the mere fact of having more men (as he plays). I, unlike Mr. Gomez, I am pleased that, after a long delay compared to other European countries, in Spain begin to implement some corrective actions timid gender biases that permeate our scientific work. Perhaps he should read, like others in academia, the recently published paper on women and science of the Observatory of Bioethics and Law (www.ub.edu / fildt / bioética.htm), which showed that Spain missed legislation and recommendations of the European Commission on this issue. The reality is that for the continuity of the "species research" and to approach the objectives of the European Agenda 2010, which is absolutely necessary that there be more women doing excellent science.
is positive because the notice of MEC is challenging for all those well-formed. Principal Investigators should be a dream to play in this country, and be with other supports that of the same.
Well, the link provides the Flora of Paul is wrong, but the document is available here . And, better yet, the invaluable blog Malaprensa (Añadidlo are at your feed readers) has made me work analyze the report data.
Does that mean there discrimanación? No. Just as they are not disposable "a priori" other factors in certain MIXING RESEARCH (yes, I'm thinking Lawrence Summers).
In any case, I am amazed by statements of the teacher. Attributed to the author when he says the "tendency to stagnation" merely use the language gap, purely rhetorical. What immobility? Has anyone advocated discrimination against women in scientific research? Or is it merely immobile who do not accept affirmative action ("corrective action gender bias") as the solution to ending this discrimination? Because they are two different things. If sex discrimination in scientific research or any other area, which is reported to be prosecuted and to correct where it is practiced. But it is clear that the best way to do is just fight discrimination with another. Why a woman should receive for deep privilege over a man who, until proven otherwise, is guilty of exercising discrriminación?
Finally, when you put the example of other European countries, " quizá debería tener en cuenta algo de lo que nos cuenta Johan Norberg sobre un tribunal de Upsala declarando ilegal la discriminación positiva:
It has been one of Sweden’s most interesting law cases. Centrum för rättvisa, Sweden´s first-profit public interest law organisation, tested the affirmative action at the law studies at Uppsala University, where students with better qualifications were turned down because of the wrong ethnic background (Swedish). Today the district court in Uppsala found that positive discrimination is discrimination, and therefore illegal. A very important decision for the future of affirmative action in Sweden generally. Justice is about how individuals are treated, Not About Aggregated statistics.
That is: justice is applied to individuals, not statistics.
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