Gender Discrimination
I wanted to get some of your opinions on a situation that is occurring over the next year at my scholarship house (Evans Scholars) involving women moving in next fall. In the past, men have only lived in the house and women scholars either lived in the dorms or apartments. However, a new initiative was started this year to have women scholars live in our house in the future. At first, the proposal involved only junior and senior women to live in, but it has since been revised to include all women scholars to live in. As a result, our house plans on having around 10 women live in the house next year.
The idea of discrimination comes into play with how their living arrangements are set up. The priority of rooms has always been determined by the Executive Board members (President, Vice Presidents, etc.), then class status, and finally grade point average. Most seniors and juniors and all Executive Board members have there own rooms. Everyone else either has one or two roommates. This is the system that is carried out in all 14 Evans Scholar chapters. However, some of the women have been coming up with an objection to the plan because of what would result with this system. The possible scenario that is being objected to is that if we have three new freshmen women, that they would have to live in a triple room together (because a freshmen women would not have priority over another to have their own room). So, this would rule out having one with their own room and the other two rooming together. This option is being objected to because many of the current women scholars do not believe it is feasible to have three women in one room. Is this really fair? Men scholars have lived in triples nearly every year, and women have done so in other Evans Scholar chapters. The same problem could occur if we have five new women scholars, too. So, I am asking you, "Is this really fair to the male scholars of the house that women scholars could possibly get their own rooms before people with higher priority."
Hopefully, you understand the situation to make a comment on it. We still do not know all the changes that are going to have to be made. However, I feel as though this system is discriminating against the men scholars that have worked hard to work their way up the ranks and deserve a higher room pick. Let me know what you think...
The idea of discrimination comes into play with how their living arrangements are set up. The priority of rooms has always been determined by the Executive Board members (President, Vice Presidents, etc.), then class status, and finally grade point average. Most seniors and juniors and all Executive Board members have there own rooms. Everyone else either has one or two roommates. This is the system that is carried out in all 14 Evans Scholar chapters. However, some of the women have been coming up with an objection to the plan because of what would result with this system. The possible scenario that is being objected to is that if we have three new freshmen women, that they would have to live in a triple room together (because a freshmen women would not have priority over another to have their own room). So, this would rule out having one with their own room and the other two rooming together. This option is being objected to because many of the current women scholars do not believe it is feasible to have three women in one room. Is this really fair? Men scholars have lived in triples nearly every year, and women have done so in other Evans Scholar chapters. The same problem could occur if we have five new women scholars, too. So, I am asking you, "Is this really fair to the male scholars of the house that women scholars could possibly get their own rooms before people with higher priority."
Hopefully, you understand the situation to make a comment on it. We still do not know all the changes that are going to have to be made. However, I feel as though this system is discriminating against the men scholars that have worked hard to work their way up the ranks and deserve a higher room pick. Let me know what you think...
posted by Nick Hursh at
9:22 PM
1 Comments:
I agree that this does discriminate against the men in the house. If i understand correctly there is a system that was set up to see who gets there own room like class status etc... I do not think that because their are women now that the house should go against this. However i do think that the women in the house should have the same opprotunities to reach that status to get their own room. Why women can't live with two other roommates like men can is something that i can not answer because i don't know why they can't if the men have year after year. That is something you would have to discuss with a woman in the house.
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