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> If the percentage of female computer science graduates (as a strong proxy for the available candidate population) is 18% (Google for the facts and stats), how

> If the percentage of female computer science graduates (as a strong proxy for the available candidate population) is 18% (Google for the facts and stats), how is every company to hit an idealistic goal of 50% representation? I really thought it was the accepted fact and a starting point of all the discussions on this subject, that the issue is the pool of candidate. Myself I recently tried to hire a developer and that’s a reality that there is nearly no female candidates. And I‘m not restricting it to CS degree. I don’t understand how it’s not obvious that what can be done at the hiring process is completely marginal. There is no politics here. The politics is how much we try to aim for 50% candidates (education, training...)

Aaron_Putnam 7y ago
The main driver is the H1B: https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/USCIS/Resources/Reports%20and%20Studies/H-1B/h-1b-petitions-by-gender-country-of-birth-fy2018.pdf https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/USCIS/Resources/Re... 73.9% of H1B visas are given to Indians, 79.2% of those Indians are males. The solution is to require at least 50% of all H1B recipients, from all countries, to be female. High levels of Indian and Chinese migration also produce secondary effects, as families from those communities still carry out sex-selective abortion even into the 2nd and 3rd generations: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6133054/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6133054/