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It's not about reaching gender parity, or shaming. It's about merit and bias. Jobs that are, on average, more suitable for a person of a certain sex do exist.
by cygx 11y ago
It's not about reaching gender parity, or shaming. It's about merit and bias.
Jobs that are, on average, more suitable for a person of a certain sex do exist. But it's a loss to society to culturally enforce gender-based barriers to entry: You want to leverage the high-performance end of the bell curve of either sex.
- stefantalpalaru 11y agoSo when people discuss statistics about women/ethnic minorities/eye color in tech, you really think it's about breaking barriers to entry and not about mirroring the composition of the general population in a ridiculous failure to understand the sampling bias?
- austinjp 11y agoActually, yes.
- stefantalpalaru 11y agoThen you need to question the underlying assumptions, because your conclusion is wrong. Start with this: given equal opportunity, any self selected group will mirror the composition of the general population.