"scarce" resources, college and sexism

[rm]

And then there's this:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/23/opinion/23britz.html

It's the sort of thing that makes it hard for me to imagine any world in which women, at least as a group, don't always lose.

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I used to work in admissions at my undergraduate university. We did whole analyses based on zip codes and census tracts. I was just a workstudy so I can't speak to how such analyses were used, but...yeah.

Even if race or gender (or economic status) were not a ticky box, there are countless proxies that folks will use. % receiving reduced price lunch, % of people who speak another language at home, % of families headed by a single person.

Before working in admissions I was a census enumerator for a summer. We wore an official badge, and asked so many rather instrusive questions, and at the time I truly thought it was simply so public funding could be allocated properly (more $ for bilingual ed, etc). I didn't understand those who distrusted me and didn't want to give me their full names, birthdays, place of birth, languages spoken at home, number of non-relatives living with them, marital status, race and ethnicity, etc. And I didn't realize that the many members of my town who were political refugees from totalitarian regimes looked at my official badge and looked terrified as they answered my questions. I was young and naive. :/ Sorry for the tangent!