A singular class by itself is inconsequential, sure. Wokeism/identity politics infiltrated the humanities a long, long time ago. There are many fake disciplines that are truly worthless; most of them evolved from Critical Race Theory, actually (i.e. Gender & Queer Theory). It's just startling to see it reach the STEM disciplines. Heck, in that same article, Mac Donald mentions that the engineering department at Cornell has slightly more female students than male students, even though there are twice as many males that apply for admission. Why the need for a forced quota? We might see more and more schools like that in the future that try to get a 50-50 split, ultimately watering down the talent and productivity.
I've spoken with three STEM instructors in the past month that are convinced that the participation gap between men and women is simply because of our social conditioning. In other words, they believe there aren't really differences between the genders, only so much as we artificially construct them (i.e. men and women are both equally interested in engineering). They dismiss the reality that there are biological elements which easily account for the differences between men and women. Yes, there is overlap, but there are also significant differences in some fields. Just a matter of time before identity politics shows up with regularity in STEM courses.
There isn’t harm in discussing racial influences in any field of study. There isn’t harm in offering more choice.
As for admissions to STEM majors, I see a problem if under qualified females are being selected over qualified, or more qualified, males. I doubt that is what is happening. It’s more likely that after the most qualified students are selected, female students are winning the ‘tie- breakers’ at a higher rate among the remaining candidates (maybe/probably by virtue of being female). I understand somebody having an issue with that but I don’t take issue with it. It doesn’t dilute the talent level because we’re talking about the last group of kids admitted (the comparatively dumber ones) where this comes into play, and we’re talking about ties. Dumb girls vs. dumb boys, rather than smart boys vs. dumb girls. Girls were historically discouraged from pursuing STEM careers, so we’ve seen a push to encourage females in STEM. There are still plenty of STEM opportunities for males.