Excerpted from The College Fix: Suggesting science research is too male dominated, this fall the University of Wisconsin-Madison will roll out a post-doctorate “feminist biology” program to counter the alleged sexism and get out from under “male, white, straight” viewpoints, organizers say.

The program will be under the school’s Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, rather than the biology department, as it strives to “uncover and reverse gender bias in biology,” the university states on its website.

Janet Hyde, director of the campus Center for Research on Gender & Women, said feminist biology “is raising new questions and suggesting novel solutions,” and described the new doctorate program as “the first in the nation – and probably the world.”

However, feminism and progressive science research have often crossed paths.

For example, a few years ago a female Duke University professor named a new fern genus she described as bisexual after popstar Lady Gaga, and said the different methods plants reproduce celebrate homosexuality in humans – a concept traced to the book “Evolution’s Rainbow” which detailed animals that show “odd behavior, homosexuality, or … human quirks.”

Feminist biology work also runs in the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s past.

The late Dr. Ruth Bleier, a UW-Madison alumnus, physician and neuroscientist, is described as a founder of feminist biology who in 1984 wrote the book: “Science and Gender: A Critique of Biology and Its Theories on Women.”

“Feminist analysis in science has already revealed and challenged scientific errors resulting from gender bias on the part of scientists, including ways in which observer bias distorted our understanding of primate behavior,” Hyde said on the university’s website. Keep reading

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"Feminist Math". Don't we already have Racial Math?

"So .... we can't have more than one kind of math ... you know: Feminist Math, Homosexual Math, Transgender Math, Bisexual Math, Morally Equivalent Math, Green Math, Justice Math, Fair Math, Racist Math, Sharia Math..."

I like how you think, Algernonpj. You are obviously a man of great sensitivity and broad inclusiveness.

You may be right, TM, I just assumed Algernonpj was a

(My symbol is so much larger because of testosterone).

I couldn't get past the bi-sexual fern. How do you tell with a fern? Does it have pink bows, or no pink bows, or bows and arrows, or tonka trucks, or what? Really, how do you tell?