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> such that schools (k-12 and undergraduate/graduate) I guess some universities care about which companies recruit there (for marketing purposes, being able to
by pedrosorio 9y ago
> such that schools (k-12 and undergraduate/graduate)
I guess some universities care about which companies recruit there (for marketing purposes, being able to say companies A,B,C recruit there), but does this really apply to k-12?
Also, if most "hip" companies chose to only recruit at universities with gender ratios exceeding some threshold (and by causality this happens before universities are "properly motivated" to encourage balanced gender ratios in CS), won't they be hurting themselves by competing for an arbitrarily chosen much smaller pool of talent?
- pwinnski 9y agoYes, girls are currently switching away from math and computer classes in high school, before they even reach college.
- pedrosorio 9y agoI am not disputing the fact that high school matters as far as gender distribution of people applying to software eng. positions. I was replying to a comment that says: > the goal here I suspect is to get enough corporations onboard such that schools (k-12 and undergraduate/graduate) are now motivated to select for and encourage balanced talent pool participation for fear of missing out on "hip" companies And asking how will "fear of missing out" motivate k-12 schools to get more girls into those classes. Companies don't recruit in k-12 schools. How would duolingo and "other hip companies" recruiting exclusively from universities whose CS classes exceed a gender ratio threshold influence k-12 schools?