re:So your supposition that the ratio for any organization including the Supreme Court should overwhelmingly favor the men makes little sense.
My assertion is it (the court, not any) currently reflects the pool of qualified candidates. The current pool is about 20% women. Also from your job numbers it appears 44% of the work force is women. So I believe the court will be in between those ranges.
First the 44% number is your number and I am unclear how you got to it. Secondly, you are right...the ratio in the current pool of federal judges is 80/20 in favor of men. However, I don't think that's an important number. The real number that we need to be concerned about is the 50/50 gender split in this country. I contend that should be the benchmark.
re:I can't believe we are even having this discussion
Of course you can't - you're a self righteous liberal who knows everything. How will you conduct open discussions of ideas or an honest look at numbers without bringing all your biases and baggage.
Self righteous? Eric, I get nothing from this discussion. I am simply surprised that with women making up 50% of the population, anyone can contend that one or two SC justice out of nine is an acceptable number for women justices. If I were a woman, I would be pissed. And if you use the argument that only 20% of the federal judges are women, the argument coming back to you will be: how the hell are we supposed to get more women federal judges if you guys continue to stick to artificial numbers and insure that the glass ceiling remains firmly in place.
If men would stop being so focused on the numbers and allow for equality to work its magic, we would all be a lot better off. In fact, men need to start paying more attention to the real problems facing this society like the boys now coming up who are consistently lagging girls in almost every measure of education. Did you know that the decades-long, sizeable gap between girls and boys in math and science has narrowed....that girls are competing in those areas almost on par with the boys? And the sizeable gap between girls and boys that favored the girls in verbal and reading is increasing. More girls are scoring better on more tests than ever before while the boys are scoring worse. More girls are going to college than boys. In almost every education metric, boys are slackers.
When I did my sixty hours in a classroom last year, I was very surprised what I saw. It would appear boys are unwilling to compete with the girls. I saw the same thing at the community college level when I took my required endorsement classes. The boys in those classes were total flakes. And in one class, there were roughly sixty people.....it was a class on the ME. I ended up getting the highest scores on the exams....thanks to this thread. <g> After the second exam, some guys came up to me and asked how I did it........did I bother to read the book.....did I study at all. They were clueless.....the only other guys in the class who did at all well on the exams were the Muslims. Presumably it was a 'gut' course for them. But scoring second, third, fourth, fifth etc after me were the girls. I was amazed......mainly because I had never been number one so consistently before in any class. lol.
Men have to take the same interest in their sons that women have taken with their daughters. The current performance of boys is unacceptable IMO. Sorry to go so OT but the subject is the focus of a paper I am doing for one of my classes. |
