> And the whole point of gender discrimination is that "on average" women's technical skills and experience are undervalued. As have been pointed out before: m

> And the whole point of gender discrimination is that "on average" women's technical skills and experience are undervalued. As have been pointed out before: most of us live in somewhat capitalist societies. Capitalists are AFAIK primarily greedy not primarily evil. I don't believe for a second that Facebook wouldn't take the opportunity straight away if they could get the same work done for less money by hiring women instead. IBM too. That should cause a feedback loop that increases salaries for female engineers until balance is reached. Anything other would imply a lack of information somewhere or that capitalists were more evil than greedy. Now that I think of it: Lack of information one or more places is actually an interesting hypothesis in its own right.