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I was raised during Communism in Bulgaria, and at that time, women had equal rights in my country unlike here in America or in some Western European countries!
by nikolay 9y ago
I was raised during Communism in Bulgaria, and at that time, women had equal rights in my country unlike here in America or in some Western European countries! And this was the case well before I was born! Since 1945, women were stimulated to take traditionally male jobs - from operating heavy machinery to military training. My country was proud of women succeeding and even exceeding men in the full spectrum of life. But even during that well-established equality, women were nowhere to be found in Computer Science! It wasn't about abilities; it wasn't about opportunities - it was about desires and interest! Although many of the teachers were female, very few of the students were, too. And nobody - men or women, - thought something was wrong about that situation, and that something had to change! I believe there are a lot of parasitic organizations in the States that find existence in blowing non-issues out of proportions! Although we're equal in intellect, we're emotionally different, and we have different interests! So, to try to compensate for that artificially is harmful, not helping genders, races, or ethnicities in any way! If there are documented cases of bias, they need to be severely persecuted, but to "prove" bias by assuming that if mental abilities are the same, then women, blacks, and Bulgarians should be proportionally employed at Google as well, is a fallacy!