Why I'm embarrassed to be from Idaho (but I escaped long ago):
At the National Conservatism conference in Orlando, Florida, held from Oct. 31 – Nov. 2, a Boise State professor in the political department, Scott Yenor, stated that independent women are “medicated, meddlesome and quarrelsome.” He also stated, “Our culture is steeped with feminism; it teaches young boys and girls that they are motivated by much the same things and want much the same things.” Most disturbingly he states “Every effort must be made not to recruit women into engineering, but rather to recruit and demand more of men who become engineers. Ditto for med school, and the law, and every trade.”
BSU Student Ally Orr responded by creating a Go-Fund-Me to establish a scholarship for women in STEM fields. Boise technology company Micron kicked in a big amount, and the fund is now an endowed scholarship at BSU.
Feel free to chip in!
Story at The Lilly