Michael F Schundler
2 min readSep 17, 2023

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My daughter and her roommates are math, engineering, and computer science majors. They are among the 10% of STEM majors excluding science that are women. So you are saying this is because the university is sexist even though it goes out of its way to accept women who want to major in these these programs?

Meanwhile Asians (my daughter is half Asian make up a disproportionate share of STEM majors, so using your logic the university is anti white?

Early in my career I worked alongside Ron Johnson at Blue Cross. He went on to become CEO of Cigna Healthcare. This may be hard for you to accept because you likely have no experience in senior management, but the problem with greater African American representation at senior management positions is not racism, but the lack of African Americans that pursue career in corporate America.

My good friend is an executive for one of America’s top corporations. Being black and talented meant corporations have thrown huge amounts of money at him to attract him to their companies.

The problem is to few African Americans elect STEM degrees. My daughter volunteered in college (she is now in medical school) to spend her Saturdays with middle school black girls tutoring science while encouraging them to study hard and pursue science careers.

It is not racism holding blacks back in STEM. I have five black grandchildren, three if whom have what it takes to be STEM majors, the other two have zero interest. Not everyone is cut out for STEM, but the under representation of African Americans is not due to lack of ability, but lack of encouragement at a young age in the underlying course of study to become STEM majors.

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