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Awkward for you maybe. If women don’t want careers in IT because it is filled with socially awkward men then whose fault is it really?
by lovetocode 7y ago
Awkward for you maybe. If women don’t want careers in IT because it is filled with socially awkward men then whose fault is it really?
- pnutjam 7y agoThere is ample evidence that women were pushed out of IT. Educate yourself. Edit: citation https://www.theguardian.com/careers/2017/aug/10/how-the-tech-industry-wrote-women-out-of-history https://www.theguardian.com/careers/2017/aug/10/how-the-tech...
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- michaelmrose 7y agoThis appears to discuss secretarial work like data entry which women weren't so much suited for as pushed into by limited options. The fact that data entry was a female dominated profession because women were pushed into it and men discouraged from it doesn't serve to prove that current women are not able to work in the field.
- pnutjam 7y agoAsk me how I know you didn't read the article. It touches on that, but mostly talks about how women were seen as convenient because they were cheap. The conventional wisdom was also that women would leave when they got married or had kids, but as computers got more powerful; the old boys club decided they needed to own those jobs too.
- michaelmrose 7y agoI read the article and still don't understand how women are really prevented from working in IT in the present day unless its mostly because many don't desire to.
- pnutjam 7y agoLike hires like. It's incredibly difficult to be the odd one out.
- lawnchair_larry 7y agoThe narrative that a boys club consciously conspired to take any jobs is quite a silly one.
- pnutjam 7y agoConscious or unconscious is really irrelevant. There was a time that nobody would have considered education peasants. It was not a conscious bias. Times have changed and will continue to do so, we need to do what we can to correct the mistakes of the past.
- lawnchair_larry 7y agoIt’s quite relevant. The point is nobody pushed anyone out. Independent autonomous people making decisions about which field they would like to study and seek employment in is not a mistake that needs correcting.
- pnutjam 7y agoYour ignoring history. The ones making the decisions pushed them out. The ones doing the hiring, not the women deciding what to do.