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Women are also currently well-represented in computing in Eastern Europe, Iran, China, and somewhat in Russia. None of these regions particularly care about "w
by caeril 5y ago
Women are also currently well-represented in computing in Eastern Europe, Iran, China, and somewhat in Russia.
None of these regions particularly care about "women in tech", and most of them are certifiably more patriarchal than any of the Western countries currently suffering from under-representation of women.
One can conclude from facts on the ground that neither gender equality nor pro-diversity movements correlate with desirable representation outcomes. Yet, those appear to be the only approaches attempted here in the West.
We're not serious about tackling the problem. We are, however, quite good at grifting off the problem with proposals we know don't work.
- tester756 5y ago>Eastern Europe >None of these regions particularly care about "women in tech" there are initiatives of promoting IT among women in Poland, afaik.
- zozbot234 5y ago> We're not serious about tackling the problem. We are, however, quite good at grifting off the problem with proposals we know don't work. Could it be that women tend to care about stuff like a healthy work-life balance, and things like the 996.ICU working week can discourage them from applying? Whoops no, we've been told that's sexist wrongthink.
- postsantum 5y agoCould it be that computers are boring af and most of these people who genuinely care about computing are somewhere on the autism spectrum (which is mostly populated by males)
- thiagocsf 5y agoWe’re all in the spectrum. That’s why it’s called a spectrum. :-)
- economusty 5y agoYour comment is great and more observant than most everything in this thread. The answer is freedom, when women have lots of choices they don't choose to play with things as often as men.
- lkrubner 5y agoIf women were afraid of long, brutal hours then they wouldn’t make up 52% of all new doctors.
- rufus_foreman 5y agoAccording to an article in the Atlantic, https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/02/the-more-gender-equality-the-fewer-women-in-stem/553592/ https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/02/the-more..., "nations that have traditionally less gender equality [tend] to have more women in science and technology than their gender-progressive counterparts do". There's a plot of % women STEM graduates vs. a measure of opportunities for women. Algeria has the highest percentage of women STEM graduates on the chart. The Nordic countries have some of the lowest.