This is stupid

I've been reading a bit lately about increasing pressure being driven to apply Title IX rules to colleges if they don't have more women in subjects such as IT, chemistry, physics, etc. Supposedly some people believe there is a "gross" inequity in the amount of male vs. female majors in these subjects. Title IX basically says, "if you don't have X percentage of women in this field, you lose your funding." But what if there REALLY ARE (GASP) specific differences in men and women, and many women by nature simply do not care to take up these subjects? What if women have the free choice to choose whatever field they want to be in, and choose something other than this? I was an IT major but I felt no such supposed animosity toward women in any of the classes I took.

There are some who very reasonably believe that the quality of training in these fields could degrade if they lose their funding because more women don't want to take those courses. Furthermore, this could very easily be translated into companies losing tax breaks because they don't have a specific percentage of some gender or race. Companies would be pulling potentially unqualified people into jobs simply to fill a quota, not to get a job done.

I wish people could just be left to do whatever they enjoy without any sort of coercion. People will excel at what they enjoy.