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Because your suggestion is similar to suggesting that black men in the south with PhDs just chose to be school teachers after the Civil Rights Act. Women themse
by nostrebored 10y ago
Because your suggestion is similar to suggesting that black men in the south with PhDs just chose to be school teachers after the Civil Rights Act. Women themselves say that they feel pushed by their managers to go into management [1]. By winnowing everything down to personal choice and preference we remove any impetus to look into the root causes of disparity.
EDIT: the same link is in my parent comment -- going back to your previous comment: "reading helps".
- mpweiher 10y agoGender studies isn't research, it's advocacy.
- nostrebored 10y agoDid you even open the linked material? It's not "gender studies", it's a survey of highly experienced women in the field of computer science. Your comment is entirely tangential, it has no clash with any of the arguments that I've been making.
- mpweiher 10y agoI had a cursory look, stopped when the old tired tropes about percent of population vs. percent in tech were pulled out. Then I looked at the URL: "gender.stanford.edu/...". Then I looked at the root of that URL, http://gender.stanford.edu/ http://gender.stanford.edu/: "The Clayman Institute for Gender Research" Pray tell how this is not gender studies? From the site: "Founded in 1974, the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University creates knowledge and seeks to implement change to promote gender equality." Implement change. As I said: advocacy.