{"id":7236,"date":"2012-04-20T21:57:52","date_gmt":"2012-04-20T21:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=7236"},"modified":"2012-04-20T21:57:52","modified_gmt":"2012-04-20T21:57:52","slug":"the-next-battle-for-gender-equity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/the-next-battle-for-gender-equity\/","title":{"rendered":"The next battle for &#8220;gender equity&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is only a matter of time before the all-male character of prominent Silicon Valley start-ups triggers the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/296114\/coming-campaign-gender-balance-silicon-valley-heather-mac-donald\">following backlash<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A flood of articles and conferences exploring the \u201cgender gap\u201d in the high-tech sector; personal testimonies from disgruntled female undergrads and grad students about discrimination in the science fields; published rankings of venture-capital firms based on how many female-headed start-ups they bankroll; taxpayer-funded high school and college programs to cultivate female engineers and entrepreneurs; additional diversity bureaucrats in colleges to bludgeon computer-science departments into hiring female professors; internships for females at venture-capital firms; threats from the U.S. Education Department\u2019s Office of Civil Rights to colleges and high schools regarding their responsibility for the start-up gender gap; Ford and Rockefeller Foundation grant programs to set up mentoring programs for female technologists; and awards ceremonies to honor venture capitalists who have nurtured female-headed start-ups.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is only a matter of time before the all-male character of prominent Silicon Valley start-ups triggers the following backlash: &nbsp; A flood of articles and conferences exploring the \u201cgender gap\u201d in the high-tech sector; personal testimonies from disgruntled female &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/the-next-battle-for-gender-equity\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7236"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7236"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7239,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7236\/revisions\/7239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}