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Broadly, the answer is: they're not exclusive, but tech is particularly bad. Probably because tech has mythologised itself in a very male-normative manner.
by moomin 10y ago
Broadly, the answer is: they're not exclusive, but tech is particularly bad. Probably because tech has mythologised itself in a very male-normative manner.
- Bartweiss 10y agoThis seems pretty oversimplified? Especially when the point was comparison to finance and medicine, which have similarly male-normative histories. A few decades ago medicine was at least as male-normative as tech; culture said nurses were female and doctors were male and that was that. But med school matriculants are ~48% female at this point. Some specialties are way more than half female, while others remain large-majority male. Meanwhile, finance has hardly budged at all. There's clearly something to learn here, and I think we're losing insight by just saying "tech is particularly bad" without actually trying to investigate.
- EduardoBautista 10y agoNot only that, nurses are still overwhelmingly female, that hasn't changed by much.
- clay_to_n 10y agoTech has been getting consistently worse in the last 20 years. As far as I know, that is _not_ true of finance or medicine. So we have a unique problem.