Should More Women and Minorities Be Actively Recruited in Science?

Should more women and minorities be actively recruited in science?

Science has discovered that diversity is crucial to every beings existence. Natural selections proves that species that don’t have enough diversity end up not being able to evolve and adapt as well. So why shouldn’t scientist themselves follow the same rules? More women and minorities should be actively recruited in science. Adding diversity to labs would be beneficial because it brings different viewpoints and ways of thinking to issues. With globalization, the world is already growing more and more together and science should not fall behind in that area. Many fields, such as sports started out with little diversity and it was them opening their doors to everyone that grew and expanded them. Women and minorities should be pushed into science because they are equally as intelligent as the dominant race and gender currently in the field now, would improve the educational experience, and would generate money.

Jessica Chasmar wrote an article in the Washington post ending the age old question, are girls smarter than boys. A team of neuroscientists from the university of California and Madrid studied girls and boys and found that while girls have smaller brains, they use their brains more efficiently. Males with bigger hippocampus in there brain tend to be smarter while girls with smaller hippocampus tend to be smarter. Scientifically proving that girls and boys are equal, so women have the potential to be just as good scientist as there male counterparts. Jason Richwine asserted in his 2009 Harvard Ph.D. thesis, “IQ and Immigration Policy,” that the average IQ of U.S. immigrants “is substantially lower than that of the white native population.” Richwine goes on to state, “No one knows whether Hispanics will ever reach IQ parity with whites.” The heritage foundation that Richwine worked under quickly distanced all relationships with Richwine and Richwine later resigned. Senior editor at The Atlantic, Ta-Nehisi Coates compiled historical evidence that race is more a social than biological phenomenon. Noam Chomsky stated in his 1987 book Language and Problems of Knowledge: “Surely people differ in their biologically determined qualities. The world would be too horrible to contemplate if they did not. But discovery of a correlation between some of these qualities is of no scientific interest and of no social significance, except to racists, sexists and the like”. He goes on to say that “Over history race has taken geography, language, and vague impressions as its basis”. No one should be able to say that one race would be better in science then another because race is a loosely defined term.

Recruiting more women and different minorities into fields of science improves the educational aspect as well. Jeremy Hyman and Dr. Lynn Jacobs both college professors and writers of the article “Why Does