I argue that the sciences would wear a different face if the playing field was more balanced with Gender Equality and Minority Equality. An expansion of alternative thought would exist with greater ethnic diversity extracted from the human population. Greater diversity would cause a shift in ideology. Regardless of the Scientific Method, people would bring to the field their core beliefs and these beliefs would influence the shaping of scientific disciplines.

1. The Status Quo of Science:
The lack of and consequential
dismissal of alternative approaches to
thinking and reasoning within the
sciences.

2. Evelyn Fox Keller. “Gender and
Science: An Update.”
Even with the assistance of the educational
system and the Federal Government,
women who pursue careers in the sciences
and who remain in the sciences are
relatively few.
Considering this fact, would science wear a
different face today if the playing field was
more balanced?

3. Science Being Defined by a Late-
Modern, Northern European
Male Mindset
The current problem is that science is
predominantly dominated by the thinking of
this particular ethic group which does not
represent the entire human population.
Hence, there is a lack of alternative
thought.

4. Alternative Conclusions Through
Alternative Beliefs
Evelyn Fox Keller - “A shift in attention
from the question of male & female nature
to that of beliefs about male & female
nature, that is ideology.”
Science dismisses the distinction between
sexual identity and beliefs about sexual
identity.

5. Alternative Conclusions Through
Alternative Beliefs
“Beliefs per se cannot exert force on the
world.”
“But people who carry such beliefs can.”
“The language in which their beliefs are
encoded has the force to shape what others -
as men, and women, and as scientists -
think, believe, and, in turn, actually do.”

6. Net Effect on Science Itself
“Careful attention to what questions get
asked, of how research programs come to
be legitimated and supported, of how
theoretical disputes are resolved, of ‘how
experiments end’ reveals the working
cultural and social norms at every stage.”
Consensus is commonly achieved, but is
rarely compelled by the forces of logic and
evidence alone.

7. Shirley M. Tilghman. “Science
versus the Female Scientist.”
“When questioned about their (young
women) experiences as science majors,
women at coed colleges complain of
feelings of isolation in a large class of
males, of being ignored by faculty and of
not being taken seriously. Women who
began college well-qualified and strongly
motivated lose their self-esteem.”

8. Two Points Come to Mind:
The experience of an aspiring female civil
engineer.
The success of women in the “Soft
Sciences,” or the “Sciences of Carbon
Based Life Forms,” or “Touchy-Feely
Stuff.”
Biology
Psychology
Medicine
Biomedical

9. Alexander Calandra. “Angels on
a Pin.”
The forcing of “Conventional Thinking”
enforces “Conventional Solutions”versus
the nurturing of “Creative Thinking” which
leads to “Creative Solutions.”
Case in Point:
Alternative methods of measuring the height of
a building with a barometer.

10. Abstracted from the following:
MacKenzie, Nancy R. (1995). Science and
Technology Today: Readings for Writers
(pp 38-70). New York, NY: St. Martin’s
Press.