A certain senator suggested using Title IX on math, science and technology fields to do what the law has done to collegiate sports. Let's explore what may happen if Title IX was enforced by legislation on these majors, seeing what has happened to collegiate sports since the 70s. Title IX found that the many universities were spending too much on mens sports and not enough on womens. Many were forced to cut back the funding of some mens sports while they had to pump money in to womens sports. Some results: over 100 mens gymnastics programs have been dropped as well as 170 wrestling teams.
How would this affect technology majors? Would the IT and ISYS majors be cut so that the university could even things out? Would CS be required to accept as many women as men? Would scholarships for women in tech majors be handed out like hot dogs at a BUYSA activity while men would be better off panning for gold in the Provo river? I'm not really sure but I don't think legislation is the answer to getting women in technology. People would find it absurd if you required the nursing program to accept as many men as women. Schools of technology simply need to do all they can to entice both men and women to study their disciplines and then accept the dice how they fall.
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