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In case you aren't just trolling: A lack of meritocracy causing of a lack of female engineers is ignorant. There are plenty of meritorious but under-represent
by hendler 10y ago
In case you aren't just trolling:
A lack of meritocracy causing of a lack of female engineers is ignorant.
There are plenty of meritorious but under-represented populations; especially female engineers. A culture without enough women or without a plan to hire women is a red flag.
Surrounding yourself with people that support [your] unsubstantiated biases increases the likelihood that the culture is unhealthy.
- chmln 10y agoWhat about other men-dominated (thus sexist), well-paying industries? Are you also concerned about the lack of female plumbers? Construction workers? Miners, perhaps?
- falsedan 10y agoI don't interact with those industries regularly, so neither am I confronted with their gross gender inequality nor can I encourage their employers to do better at attracting female applicants. For dev jobs, both the problem visibility and remedial actions are obvious to me. To answer your question: yes
- citizenkeen 10y agoI don't plan on being one of those, so it's rather abstract.
- ecthiender 10y agoConstruction work, plumbing and mining (for workers) are not well paying industry when compared to software. Also, these industries are male dominated because they require hard labour and working conditions, which is often biologically unsuitable for women. Even then, in South Asian countries you can find even ratio females to males in construction work. They do the same hard labour as men, and as the use of machinery and automation is rarer (in these regions), it's even more manual hard labour.
- hueving 10y agoA culture without enough [any underrepresented group] or without a plan to hire [underrepresented group] is a red flag. Do you evaluate potential workplaces based on the number of hispanics, blacks, Australians, Irish, Jews and Muslims as well?