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The difference is in how the issue is phrased. You usually see people argue that the tech imbalance is in men/nerds/whoever discriminating against women and pus

• shaki-dora 9y ago
  > You usually see people argue that the tech imbalance is in men/nerds/whoever discriminating against women Now we're moving the goalpost. But anyway, I doubt your impression. ["women in it" discrimination] get 1.2 million hits on google, while ["women in it" culture] gets 37.5 million hits. Note that "changing culture" means nothing else but "making the job more attractive for women", or "women don't want to work in IT". Here's the first headline I get on Google News for ["women in IT"]: "Why We Should Encourage More Women to Work in IT" That's awfully close to the "How do we recruit boys[..]" I cited above.
  • badwulf 9y ago
    > Now we're moving the goalpost. Can you elaborate on this? The goalpost looks static to me. > get 1.2 million hits on google Citing Google trends doesn't prove anything. Nobody cares about what the internet's vocal minority has to say: http://www.businessinsider.com/10-of-twitter-users-account-for-90-of-twitter-activity-2009-6?IR=T http://www.businessinsider.com/10-of-twitter-users-account-f... You can't even be certain that Google Search itself is unbiased: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/11/22/pers-n22.html https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/11/22/pers-n22.html The comment you were replying to pointed out the huge hypocrisy we see when talking about gender imbalance in industries.