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I observed 3 things about women in boot camps that explain this phenomena outside of affirmative action: 1. They are self selecting to jump into the known gend

by emcq 10y ago

I observed 3 things about women in boot camps that explain this phenomena outside of affirmative action: 1. They are self selecting to jump into the known gender gap in engineering. 2. Perhaps due to 1, they generally came from STEM backgrounds in great universities (Stanford, Michigan, UCLA, etc). 3. They had better final project presentations and projects than average. Perhaps due to 1 and 2. If they were driven, had a previous math/EE/mech E degree from a top university, and a great GitHub project why wouldn't you hire them?

OJFord 10y ago
> If they were driven, had a previous math/EE/mech E degree from a top university, and a great GitHub project why wouldn't you hire them? The woman in the example given in this thread failed; so certainly wasn't 'previous...degree from a top university' calibre. To be absolutely clear, I'm not in anyway 'against success' for any woman. The sort of merit-based hiring you described is exactly what everyone should be doing. But if candidate A is better than candidate B: hire candidate A! Whatever their gender, or fit for whatever other quota; scrap the damn quotas and targets. The only targets should be relevant capabilities, traded off against cost of course.