How interesting that Donna Shalala is president of the Clinton Foundation.
Shalala made a big impression on me some years ago when she was president of the University of Miami. At that time, she made a big deal of how women in the sciences are not treated fairly Bias Is Hurting Women in Science. How odd, I thought, that she was in a position to actually do something about that, but did nothing.
If it is true that women are not treated fairly in the sciences, this implies there is a large, untapped pool of scientific talent, out there. Shalala said as much. So, why not tap that talent?
The main business of university presidents is raising money. Shalala could have raised some money and created, say, the Department of Female Chemistry. Bring in some of that top scientific talent, run the department on principles favorable to women, and watch all that prolific research come rolling in. They could even found their own "Journal of Female Chemistry".
Does that sound unusual to you? It shouldn't. That is exactly what many universities have done with women's studies, ethnic studies, "Africana" studies, and urban anthropology. The feminists could not find a home in an existing department, so the made their own. The ethnologists could not find a home in an existing department so they made their own, and so on. I completely respect that. They raised their own money, they funded their own departments, they publish their own journals. What's the problem?
Donna Shalala did none of that. All she did was monger grievances. And now she is president of the Clinton Foundation. I wonder what that says about the Clinton Foundation.
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