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Honest question: is it morally fair to be creating big incentives for hiring female workers in tech positions that aren't offered to men? I am 100% in agreemen

Honest question: is it morally fair to be creating big incentives for hiring female workers in tech positions that aren't offered to men? I am 100% in agreement that there is a huge problem, but am personally of the opinion that we need to fix early-life biases to actually create more female engineers and executives rather than trying to entice the few STEM-educated female graduates into jobs they may or may not want. It just seems to me like tech companies are creating an equivalent of college affirmative action, which could backfire by creating animosity from male job applicants who get passed over because they're not in the right gender bucket to meet quotas.

iokevins 11y ago
Sounds like you prefer more equality and meritocracy, in hiring--is that right? I'm glad to see we are in agreement about the existence and significance of the problem. Opinions naturally will differ, on strategies to pursue--one note the article mentioned was a perceived ding on the current investment of resources in pursuing strategies. More resources, more strategies, including early life and others?
- mdorazio 11y ago
  Kevin, I prefer equal opportunity in as many parts of life as possible, including hiring. Do you have any stats on strategies being actively pursued by companies beyond "we need to hire more women"? The article made mention of some, but didn't go into specifics on how seriously they were being taken. I would personally like to see the bigger tech companies move toward training + hiring programs for women who aren't already STEM educated (we obviously need more engineers across the board, and the reliance on traditional CS/EE degrees really frustrates me) and toward creating tools and training materials for parents to use with their daughters in early life. A lot of the effort in the latter area seems to be coming from parents themselves, sometimes with help from Kickstarter (ex. Robot Turtles).

iokevins 11y ago

Sounds like you prefer more equality and meritocracy, in hiring--is that right? I'm glad to see we are in agreement about the existence and significance of the problem. Opinions naturally will differ, on strategies to pursue--one note the article mentioned was a perceived ding on the current investment of resources in pursuing strategies. More resources, more strategies, including early life and others?

mdorazio 11y ago
Kevin, I prefer equal opportunity in as many parts of life as possible, including hiring. Do you have any stats on strategies being actively pursued by companies beyond "we need to hire more women"? The article made mention of some, but didn't go into specifics on how seriously they were being taken. I would personally like to see the bigger tech companies move toward training + hiring programs for women who aren't already STEM educated (we obviously need more engineers across the board, and the reliance on traditional CS/EE degrees really frustrates me) and toward creating tools and training materials for parents to use with their daughters in early life. A lot of the effort in the latter area seems to be coming from parents themselves, sometimes with help from Kickstarter (ex. Robot Turtles).