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Sure, here https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-37254851 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-37254851 Not really sure what you're implying

throwaway2245 6y ago
Never submitted to HN. Based on the search results and point scores, I'd wager that no article with "women" and "engineering" has ever been at the top of the front page, as this presently is.
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- mmillin 6y ago
  You're moving the goalposts set in your original post, but a quick search[1] shows many articles on Hacker News about the gap between men and women in engineering. Many with more points than this post currently has. It does seem like this post is growing more quickly than these did, but perhaps because this is a more surprising/novel development, whereas the gap of women in engineering roles is much more commonly known? [1]: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=women+engineering https://hn.algolia.com/?q=women+engineering
  - throwaway2245 6y ago
    There are 4 such articles with more points, at the time of your writing (and I expect there will soon be 0 or 1). There are also 4 such articles with more points referencing boys and education (not including this one).
throwaway2245 6y ago
I'm implying that "a gender difference which ostensibly disadvantages boys in education" will get more attention than "a gender difference which ostensibly disadvantages women in engineering". On a forum which is organised around engineering. And people will claim that the latter gets more attention, despite being shown evidence to the contrary. That's pretty average sexism. (I also would note that this hasn't been up for long enough for people to be up-voting for the content, given that you can only access it as a 23-minute podcast.)
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- MattGaiser 6y ago
  > And people will claim that the latter gets more attention, despite being shown evidence to the contrary. Except this has not been demonstrated at all. The BBC has both covered the topic and it has been discussed in highly upvoted posts on Hacker News.
  - throwaway2245 6y ago
    As discussed above - despite widening the goalposts to include any article with 'women' and 'engineering' in the title, there is now only one such article which matches the popularity of this one - and based on the trajectory, that is unlikely to remain the case.

throwaway2245 6y ago

Never submitted to HN. Based on the search results and point scores, I'd wager that no article with "women" and "engineering" has ever been at the top of the front page, as this presently is.

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mmillin 6y ago
You're moving the goalposts set in your original post, but a quick search[1] shows many articles on Hacker News about the gap between men and women in engineering. Many with more points than this post currently has. It does seem like this post is growing more quickly than these did, but perhaps because this is a more surprising/novel development, whereas the gap of women in engineering roles is much more commonly known? [1]: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=women+engineering https://hn.algolia.com/?q=women+engineering
- throwaway2245 6y ago
  There are 4 such articles with more points, at the time of your writing (and I expect there will soon be 0 or 1). There are also 4 such articles with more points referencing boys and education (not including this one).

throwaway2245 6y ago

I'm implying that "a gender difference which ostensibly disadvantages boys in education" will get more attention than "a gender difference which ostensibly disadvantages women in engineering". On a forum which is organised around engineering. And people will claim that the latter gets more attention, despite being shown evidence to the contrary. That's pretty average sexism. (I also would note that this hasn't been up for long enough for people to be up-voting for the content, given that you can only access it as a 23-minute podcast.)

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MattGaiser 6y ago
> And people will claim that the latter gets more attention, despite being shown evidence to the contrary. Except this has not been demonstrated at all. The BBC has both covered the topic and it has been discussed in highly upvoted posts on Hacker News.
- throwaway2245 6y ago
  As discussed above - despite widening the goalposts to include any article with 'women' and 'engineering' in the title, there is now only one such article which matches the popularity of this one - and based on the trajectory, that is unlikely to remain the case.