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>This person also had a similarly aged daughter and he was doing none of this for her. Cool, but that has nothing to do with industry bias. This same phenomeno
by crumpets 8y ago
>This person also had a similarly aged daughter and he was doing none of this for her.
Cool, but that has nothing to do with industry bias. This same phenomenon is shown by enrollment rates at university in CS.
- UncleMeat 8y agoAll biases flow together. You are right that tech companies cannot stop this man from doing this. We must instead holistically approach these topics. But tech does play a role (via advertising and other media) in planting an image of what tech is like in people's minds, which can make them more or less likely to behave in this way. The most important point here is that this stuff is everywhere and deep. When people say they've never seen any bias I encourage them to ask all their male peers if they used toys as children as an entry into tech. Then I ask if those toys were marketed at boys. Repeat for female peers. You find a lot of influence in this manner.