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I don't see how you can get that read given the first paragraph. > Because women used to be actively prohibited from full-time employment many decades ago, the

I don't see how you can get that read given the first paragraph. > Because women used to be actively prohibited from full-time employment many decades ago, there is now the misguided belief that women SHOULD work, and if women AREN’T working, there’s something wrong…. Many women simply aren’t cut out for the corporate rat race, so to speak, and that’s not because of ‘the patriarchy,’ it’s because men and women aren’t identical, and women are much more inclined to gain fulfillment elsewhere.

mips_avatar 7y ago
Because that paragraph aligns with my personal experience. My mother was a successful software engineer when I was a kid. And because her company had this attitude that required every employee needed to work 40 hours on normal weeks and 60 hours when a bug patch was needed, she always said it was her biggest regret that she kept working after me and my sister were born. I don’t see how preferential treatment towards hiring women helps diversity, when in my experience the biggest hindrance to diversity is the business expectations on employees. And how different would it be today if someone was in my mothers position at Microsoft? I know they pay lip service to all these but I don’t think she would be respected if she asked for 15 hour work weeks for 8 years. My mom would love to get back into software engineering now, but since she wasn’t allowed to take on a lighter load, she’s lost skills and can’t find good work.