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> Helping drive up the numbers of women and other underrepresented populations in CS should be a major priority for developed countries. What if we try to resp
by reitanqild 9y ago
> Helping drive up the numbers of women and other underrepresented populations in CS should be a major priority for developed countries.
What if we try to respect womens choices and work to get them better pay for the very important work they actually do, first?
Why is it that nursing or teaching should be paid so much less than software engineering?
Or even worse: why is it so much cooler to be an engineeer like me than a nurse or teacher? The pay can partially be explained by supply/demand (qualified nurses are in high demand but buyers don't seem to be able to pay, at least not here.)
- bluewave 9y agoYou've answered your own question. Supply/demand is not something we can negotiate or tweak to our liking. Teaching/nursing jobs need to be automated as much as possible if we want to deal with global issues like aging populations and educational inequality.
- purple-again 9y agoBecause that’s how capitalism works. Money follows value generated to society not individual perceived value. A teacher at maximum capacity can only deliver a tiny tiny fraction of the value that a software developer can. 100 students per class 8 classes a day 40 year career. You have provided value to 32,000 children all of whom have two parents so value to 96,000 people well say.
- ec109685 9y agoValueable in what sense? Are what most programmers programming intrinsically valuable? If that teacher was a difference maker for 100k people, that seems very valuable.
- reitanqild 9y agoThen what are teachers who create good engineering/programming students worth?