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Women software engineers are a much smaller percentage of women than male software engineers are of men. That's pretty obvious to anyone who's ever worked in so
by eloff 7y ago
Women software engineers are a much smaller percentage of women than male software engineers are of men. That's pretty obvious to anyone who's ever worked in software.
- dangus 7y agoThe wording was unclear to me at first because it wasn’t explicit. Anyway, I completely changed my comment to more closely go along with the point I want to be making. Regardless, besides being unfair the idea that the policy is economically justified doesn’t seem to be immediately intuitive to me. It seems like you should advertise on subject matter for that kind of thing, e.g. people who watch EEVBlog would get an advertisement for electrical engineering jobs.
- marcosdumay 7y agoThe wonders of target advertising. It's probably not possible to target the readers of CS and EE content, but targeting young men is easy.
- qtplatypus 7y agoHowever that is in part because employers have been historically hesitant to employ them (and clearly if they are not advising to women then the will not be getting employment) this creates a self supporting feedback loop. Part of employment law is to break this loop.
- collyw 7y agoYou say that as if it is fact. Do you have any evidence to support it? I always assumed that it was mainly down to more males taking an interest in the subject. In my career in IT women have always been seen as equals where I have worked. There just aren't many of them.
- concordDance 7y agoI thought there were more women computer programmers than men in the 60s?