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And of course the Mika and Joe do not remotely push back on that bullshit. 
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What statute is that from? I dot pulleditoutofmyass, section 8?
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I have a friend who went to U Mich for his graduate degree says that they’ve been doing this shit for years. They surveilled him at one point, in fact, or tried to.
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As always, XKCD has you covered:
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I was in the advanced math group in grade school, along with other girls. When we hit 12/13, all the girls except for me and one other dropped out. Their MOTHERS had told them that boys wouldn’t be interested in dating them if they were smarter, so they stopped doing their homework, studying for tests, etc.
In high school, the calculus teacher told me and the other girls in class that we should only do the AB Calculus exam, not the harder BC one. I got a 5 (out of 5) on the BC one, without studying specially for it, or getting any tutoring. None of the boys did.
It’s amazing that any girls pursue STEM, considering how much is stacked against them.
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Learning more of the history behind Hidden Figures, what jumped out at me were the positions filled by women as support roles. Having monotonous tasks assigned to them was one way to get a foot in the door. My own IT career started with data entry, even though I had programming skills. A foundation of speed and accuracy in typing was initially a benefit (although it came back to haunt me later with GUI “features” like type-ahead). Still, on most teams I was the only woman among the programmers, until I moved into lead roles and recruited more.
What grinds my gears in promotions of STEM is the idea that anyone / anything can code after some training. IMO, language skills served me more than math - and programming is a blend of art and science. Everyone has a unique writing/coding style, and it might be necessary for tech workers to spend more time on maintenance - understanding and successfully modifying the work of others - than creating something new. 
In other education news, this film about Robert Reich looks interesting:
Here’s the trailer:
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Oh yes, it absolutely is.
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