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Conventional wisdom says that men generally still achieve and succeed in STEM subjects (science, technology, engineering, math). But even that generality, which used to be true, is being challenged. The challenger is Lawrence Krauss himself, a very big name and authority in science.
In an article published last month, he says "Men are missing in academia." Decades of affirmative action programming and cultural shift have left men behind even in STEM, the subjects where they used to cluster and achieve.
How did that happen? Krauss says DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) bears some blame. The "vast bureaucracy" of DEI resulted in disturbing new trends: "In a desire to include women and minorities, white males are often excluded . . ."
An unnatural absence of men in education has been noticed. The president of Purdue University says, "Where are all the men?" For asking this reasonable question, he got protests:
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