OK, so Speaking of women, well,
there seems to be a lot of that
lately because of what a boy C
state political science professor
said in a speech last month.
Doctor Scott Yener teaches
political philosophy at Bhsu.
He's a tenured professor
that's been there since 2000,
but in early November, Dr.
Jenner was speaking at the national
Conservatism conference as a Washington
Fellow at the Claremont Institute
Center for the American Way of Life.
That's quite the business card.
The Claremont Institute is a
conservative think tank that
also has members who believe the
2020 presidential election was.
Fraudulent.
Anyway, Dr.
Yennard gave a 15 minute speech
at that conference that he
posted to YouTube last week
and included things like this.
Our independent women seek their
purpose in life in mid level,
bureaucratic jobs like
human resource management,
Environmental Protection and marketing.
They are more medicated,
meddlesome and quarrelsome than
women need to be.
If we want a great nation,
we should be preparing young
women to become mothers,
not finding every reason for young
women to delay motherhood until
they are established in a career
or sufficiently independent.
If every Nobel Prize winner is a man,
that's not a failure.
It's kind of A cause for celebration.
More successful men will mean more
happy citizenry and a stronger nation.
Yeah, I know well.
Needless to say, it didn't get much
attention until that video hit tick
tock and then the university felt
compelled to put out this statement.
Boise State University understands
the open exchange of ideas,
which is fundamental to education.
Can introduce uncomfortable,
even offensive ideas.
However, the university cannot infringe
upon the First Amendment rights
of any members of our Community,
regardless of whether we,
as individual leaders agree or
disagree with that message.
No single faculty member defines
what Boise State or any public
university endorses or stands for,
so we wanted to hear from another
faculty member to dig a little deeper
into what defines Boise State.
Dr Joanne Lady has been the Dean of Boise
State's College of Engineering since 2017.
She graduated.
1982 with a degree in chemical engineering,
not from Boise State.
Another college,
but she's also a fellow of the American
Institute of Chemical Engineers,
and last year received another
fellowship from the Association
for the Advancement of Science
for her research into air quality.
Oh,
and she's a wife and a mom.
She's also aware of what her
colleague has said and has
this to say in response.
Every effort must be required.
There 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.
So I think everybody at the university
has a right to their opinion and
that their opinion is important and
that we learn from each other and we
need to continue to have dialogue.
So I think the important aspect of
being a university is having that.
Freedom of speech and the ability to.
Express your opinions in terms of
engineering and computer science.
Those are.
Jobs and workforces that need to be diverse?
I think that's important because
I feel like engineering is all
about solving problems and that
requires a lot of creativity and
creative jobs as you would know,
require a different life
experience and different life
experiences around the table.
And that's why diversity is so
important in engineering that diverse
set of thoughts that can really solve.
Problems and the critical problems
that we need to solve in the world.
The essence of doctor speech is
basically that feminism is a failure,
and it's done the opposite.
In fact, it's done more harm than
it has done good for this country.
Do you buy that?
I don't really. Think about it
in that way in terms of being a
woman in a male dominated field,
I think I have a unique set of
perspectives to bring to the table.
I am married.
I have children and so I have
succeeded in a career that is very
rewarding as well as having a family.
So I feel like that feminism and that
movement toward bringing women up is not.
This is not. Uh, failure?
Are feminist culture points.
Women, especially young women,
away from marriage and family life
through its celebration of careerism.
Now when you got into engineering,
you decided this is where you wanted to go.
Did you feel like you were pushed there
or that like this is the only way for
you to succeed was to quote unquote.
Get into a man's job a man's world.
I went into engineering because I liked
science and math and solving problems I.
Knew it would be a good career.
Engineering is a very solid career.
It's well paying and those were the
decisions that drove me to engineering.
I went into academics because I wanted
to teach and I really wanted that
perspective of being a good teacher and
helping students achieve their goals. We
need to D emphasize our
colleges and universities.
That's essential to making
progress on family matters.
Almost everything in these
indoctrination camps complicates
the male female dance.
It delays growing up
that basically. Promoting going to school,
getting an education is not going
to enforce and build this fabric
of our nation as he refers to it.
Do you believe that?
Do you agree with that
in my opinion. The things that.
Make the fabric of life are.
Being a role model to our children
on what they can accomplish.
Part of that is.
Being a team with a partner
and really having a career
that has been successful.
And I would guess that if you
talk to my two grown children,
they would say me having a
successful career has helped them
obtain their dream jobs as well.
I would be lying if I told you
I have never heard this before.
OK, this isn't new to you, it's not new.
I have been in the. Profession for
a very long time in his changed
dramatically since when I started
there is still work to be done
and it continues and there are about 2200
students in Boy C State College engineering.
About 18% of them are women which is below
the national average of about 23% were told.
Doctor Lady pointed out Boise State's
College of Engineering is only 25 years
old and they've grown over that quarter
century to be a ranked College of engineering
in research and undergraduate studies.
In those 25 years, they've had four Deans,
three of which have been women,
so she credits the colleges
accomplishments and impact to the
commitment of its women leadership.
Dr Lady was one of 23 of the
issues Deans Vice President,
president and athletic director that signed
a letter of support for women at the school,
something they felt they had to do today.
Noted this significant contributions
to all areas of academia.
Industry and society.
Boise State University has a long
tradition of supporting women.
They said we defend the right to seek
an education to pursue a range of
academic aspirations and to make their
mark in whatever ways they choose.
Doctor Jenner put out a recorded response
to the backlash he has received this week,
but it's basically doubling down on what
he already said in Orlando and what he
said in other publications previously.
Like transgender activists are
trying to undermine parental rights.
Something we talked about back in 2017.
Now we reached out to doctor Yennard today.
To get an answer to a few of our
questions is yet to respond.
We also reached out to Lieutenant
Governor Janice McGee and since she
put Doctor Jenner on her education
Task force in an effort to root
out indoctrination in our schools.
What does she holding the second highest
political position in the state,
Idaho's first female Lieutenant governor?
What does she think about being in
a midlevel bureaucrat?
Bureaucratic job as he says and
labeled as more medicated,
meddlesome and quarrelsome than
women need to be.
While we're still waiting for a response.