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The difficult challenge is that the skills aren't uniformly distributed, because the discrimination goes back way earlier than the interview. I remember how agg
by jkoudys 6y ago
The difficult challenge is that the skills aren't uniformly distributed, because the discrimination goes back way earlier than the interview. I remember how aggressively hostile the general culture was towards girls focusing on "geeky" pursuits like computer hardware and software when I was a kid, and that's been amplified into self-perpetuating disparities today as those things became more important. It's obviously influenced the perception of interviewers as you've described, but education, training, representation in media, etc are all essential.
Much like the other problems in the article, there's no obvious villain, and it's a long process to change a deeply flawed system.