Equilibrium Grade Inflation with Implications for Female Interest in STEM Majors

This paper may have been written in 2019 but the mind set has been in evidence for many years in my career field. Women have been set up to fail in the civilian workplace. In the Army, when an individual holds a tech MOS, passed the training requirements, and is later found to be unable to actually do the job, as long as they have been a good soldier in other areas, they are usually sent back to the school house as an instructor. Argue this premise all you want, but we all know it happens in a lot of cases. Most of them do a fine job as instructors. People that can do the job stay in the field, usually working a billet above their paygrade. In the civilian workforce if you can't do the job you get fired. Lowering the standards is setting up people to fail. Plain and simple.
ex 1; Years ago I had a women as a work partner that had been an E-6 Apache fixer while on active duty. She was one of those people that had been sent back to be an instructor. At the 17 year mark with no chance of making 7 she got RIFfed. Her resume looked good, she passed our tests and got through the interviews and was hired. I don't know what her expectations were, but she soon realized she couldn't keep up in the workplace. There were several attempts to catch her up on industrial tech. She either couldn't or wouldn't get "it". She started drinking heavily. She had opportunities through work(Employee Assistance Program) to straighten her life out. She lost her Husband, Children and Job.
ex 2; At my place of employment we take on the best of the mechatronics students, from the local tech school, as trainees, semi-apprenticeship type situations that last almost a year. 5 or so years ago a woman earned the spot. She was doing an excellent job. I was the last ET she worked with, we were doing heavy mechanical jobs, before graduating her program. She'd have been a good addition to the workforce. She failed the interview because during Her year in the plant none of the other ET's she worked with on Electrical stuff had shown her how to check a 3phase motor, at least that's the story I got from management. I work with a bunch of misogynistic D-heads for the most part, so it was only a minor surprise we didn't hire Her. She'll do great in the field though, I'm certain.

It isn't a joke. It is our operating reality. Excellence is being sacrificed at the alter of "diversity". No one wants to fly on a plane or ride in an elevator or ride in a car that is designed by substandard engineers but that is where we are going. It will bring into questions the competency of all female engineers in the future as an unintended consequence.

It is insulting. If women want the career fields and their skills are not up to it, then give them the opportunity for tutoring...don't lower the standards.