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Sure, this question definitely deserves further probing for other causative factors. But about discrimination, what stage are we talking about? During early chi
by hackpert 9y ago
Sure, this question definitely deserves further probing for other causative factors. But about discrimination, what stage are we talking about? During early childhood when males tend to be pushed towards mechanical toys and construction sets, and females towards caring for dolls? During university when you're repeatedly singled out as the token female in a STEM class by the professor? At the workplace? Discrimination can exist independently at multiple stages and these data only talk about equality on some levels, and that too only overt discrimination. I'm not saying it is (or is not) the primary cause, but it may be too early to rule it out entirely.
- haberman 9y agoNo one is arguing to rule it out entirely. Not even James Damore. The question is: how do we measure the problem of discrimination? Many people assume that we can measure discrimination by looking at the percentage of women in engineering and comparing it to the percentage of women in the general population. Many people believe that any difference between these numbers proves discrimination. But an increasing amount of evidence suggests that this a bad assumption.