This article talks about the new policy at the University of Manitoba's Faculty of Education, which is reserving a full 45% of all sports for "self-identified diversity categories", including non-whites, LGBT, people with disabilities, and a vague "disadvantaged persons" category. The school claims that it's not a quota system, because students must still meet minimum entrance standards (a C average).

The author goes on to point out that if the desire is to have future teachers reflect the community, they've neglected the fact that men are distinctly underrepresented in teaching, as the Faculty of Education enrollment is 72% female. The university explains why this doesn't matter by saying that although teachers are primarily female, those with power in the school system (principals and superintendents) are primarily male.

And the final points involve how women are a majority of university graduates (58%), and it's only areas where men dominate that are seen as problems.

Today the only degrees with reliable male majorities are the sciences, technology, engineering and math: STEM subjects.

Curiously enough, everyone seems hard at work trying to eliminate these last few redoubts of maleness on campus. Countless scholarships, outreach programs and other special programs aim to lure, cajole and frog-march more female students into STEM degrees in the name of greater diversity. At the University of Waterloo, renowned for its high-tech success, administration has endorsed a United Nations Women campaign called HeForShe that aims to boost female enrollment in STEM subjects by, among other things, requiring “mandatory gender sensitization programs for first-year students;” male students will thus be informed they’re to blame for a lack of women in their courses.

What do you think of the point made about how male-dominated areas are hotly challenged with great efforts to bring women in, while female-dominated areas are not seen as a problem? Does anyone have any examples of efforts (like quotas) to bring men into female-dominated areas?

What do you think of pointing to the gender ratio among principals and superintendents to justify not trying to bring more men into teaching and equalize out that gender ratio?

EDIT: Forgot to include the article. http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/peter-shawn-taylor-quotas-on-campus-forget-one-part-of-society-men