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Sweden set to scrap university gender quotas

Published: 12 Jan 10 08:31 CET
Online: Sweden set to scrap university gender quotas - The Local

Sweden plans to ditch gender quotas for admissions to programmes at the country’s universities and colleges, according to higher education and research minister Tobias Krantz.

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“The education system should open doors – not shut them in the face of young women who are motivated to study,” Krantz wrote in an article published in the Dagens Nyheter (DN) newspaper.

He explained that the government plans to submit a proposal for consultation which would remove gender-based affirmative action from Sweden’s higher education laws.

The government has allowed universities to practice affirmative action since 2003 in order to encourage an equal number of men and women at the country's universities.

Women currently represent about 60 percent of university students in Sweden, a pioneer in gender equality.

The proposed change comes following criticism that men received priority admission to programmes where their gender was underrepresented and where there were a higher number of applicants with top marks than available spots, such as programmes in veterinary medicine, dentistry, medicine, and psychology.

Because more female than male applicants had top marks, the consequence has been that men have been give priority due to a clause in Sweden’s current higher education laws stipulating that gender quotas should be used to choose between applicants of otherwise equal merit.

The rules have had an uneven effect, according to Krantz.

"The current regulations yield a totally unfair result. Last year it was almost only women, 95 percent, who had worked hard to get into their dream programme but who did not get in because of their gender," Krantz wrote.

For programmes dominated by men, the system does not work in the same way because there are fewer overall applicants.

The Svea Court of Appeal recently ruled in favour of 44 women who were not admitted to a veterinary programme because of their gender, awarding them damages of 35,000 kronor ($5,000) each.

In another class-action lawsuit currently in the courts, 31 women have sued
Lund University in southern Sweden for discrimination for giving male students
admissions priority to the psychology programme in 2008.


Porky says:

http://counterfeminism.info/2010/01/swedes-axe-pro-male-affirmative-action/



In another example of how hell-bent the western world is on marginalizing its men, the Swedish government is set to get rid of affirmative action in its universities because it is now starting to work against women.


Since the current rules were set in place in 2003 the Swedish government has had no problem denying places to men by enforcing the policy that if it comes down to a choice between a male and a female of otherwise equal merit, the female should be given preference.


Now that females make up 60 percent of the country’s university students, it is women who are being turned away in favor of males of otherwise equal merit, so the policy is about to be junked.


According to smug bastard Tobias Krantz, the man-hating Minister in charge of kicking young Swedish men in the nuts….


“The education system should open doors – not shut them in the face of young women who are motivated to study,”


What a sensitive bloke! Where was his sensitivity during the years when it was young men having those doors slammed in their faces simply for being male? Probably yelling whatever the Swedish equivalent is for “You go girl!” that’s where.


It would seem from this move that what the Swedish government wants is a female majority not of 60% but rather 70 or 80%. After all, if the current rules are being used in favor of males and the student body is still mostly female, the number of women can be expected to do nothing but grow once the rules are changed.


This means that, at the very least, Sweden is looking at two thirds of their University students being female – that’s literally twice as many women as men in University! But that’s just fine by most political parties these days, as even middle class males can be rather rebellious creatures, so the rich and powerful have simply decided to hand more degrees to the girls than to the boys. That way within twenty years they will be able to do to all professions what has already been done to secretarial work and teaching – lower the boom with very little to worry about, after all it’s not often that you see a female-dominated profession picking up lead pipes and baseball bats and taking to the streets.