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Originally Posted by Shrub
I think that a lot of the grant should also depend on if the females in question actually feel comfortable in the enviornment. Just because you do have a solid 50:50 or what have you ratio or a female on the drive team does not mean that all or even most girls on the team feel they are given the chance to speak their mind and allowed an equal chance to participate in what they want to participate inside the team.
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Lets say a student didn't feel comfortable in an environment. Would they have the confidence to say so when the team could lose out on money if they told the truth?
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Originally Posted by jman4747
We recruit mostly based on, do you want to join & are you old enough. Really the ideal way to recruit is to recruit, not to try to recruit more of this type of person or that type of person. The best you can do is make sure you are being fair.
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What if your recruitment is inherently off-putting for people of a certain type (race, gender, religion, etc)? Why would it be bad for a team to look at themselves and explore why they are not diverse? Lets say a high school is 60% female (not unlikely) and a robotics team is 80% male (also not unlikely). Why is it absurd that the diversity of a team reflect the diversity of the school/community that the team pulls from?
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Originally Posted by Joe G.
the mere presence of these grant funds will lead others to assume that female leaders would not have their positions without the grant money.
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Pretty much any STEM-related accomplishment I've achieved has been belittled by someone "because you only got it because you're a girl." Girls already receive those comments anyways. Might as well get something for it.
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Originally Posted by Arpan
Providing a financial incentive for teams to achieve gender equality (by cutting male members or recruiting more females) or for teams to promote females to positions of authority is, in my eyes, just plain wrong.
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Man, that gender equality. What a bummer. I can't believe they actually want to support teams that encourage hands-on STEM exposure to females. It's not like
research shows that its the most effective at getting girls into STEM.
edit: Why driver and not captain? Not all teams assign a captain (ie 148), but all teams have to assign a driver.