What makes you think women are hired less? When Google (and other top tech companies) actively discriminate in favor of women, that causes the appearance of di

What makes you think women are hired less? When Google (and other top tech companies) actively discriminate in favor of women, that causes the appearance of discrimination elsewhere in the industry, because the top tech companies have taken more of the best female programmers and those who weren't hired by Google et al are, on average, worse than the men who weren't hired by Google et al. And when I spoke about interests, I was discussing why few women choose to study computer science.