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I'm sure AT&T was a very diverse place when Bell invented the telephone. Same with early Microsoft or Google. The likely answer is lack of funding. The median

I'm sure AT&T was a very diverse place when Bell invented the telephone. Same with early Microsoft or Google. The likely answer is lack of funding. The median app is very poorly made.

long_time_gone 5y ago
There are multiple types of diversity, no? ==Women pioneers have been a part of AT&T since 1878. That’s when Emma Nutt joined a team of teenage boys at a telephone exchange in Boston to become the first female operator. Within a few years almost all the telephone operators were women. Those female operators rose to the occasion during World War I, operating the telephone switchboards for the U.S. Army in France.== ==“As a result, AT&T and its subsidiaries became the largest employer of women in the United States,” he said. “At its peak, in the early 1950s, AT&T employed over 200,000 women as telephone operators.”== https://about.att.com/pages/our_people/Our_innovators/female_firsts https://about.att.com/pages/our_people/Our_innovators/female...
- throwaway3699 5y ago
  Sure, but aren't you implying there no female developers that would work on this software?
  - long_time_gone 5y ago
    I’m not implying anything. I’m stating the fact that diversity can come in many different shapes, sizes, and shades as shown by AT&T. It’s also worth point this out as well while we are talking about AT&T and politics: “ Cramer calls AT&T the ‘most Republican of any publicly traded company’” https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/09/cramer-calls-att-the-most-republican-of-any-publicly-trade-company.html https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/09/cramer-calls-att-the-most-re...
    - majewsky 5y ago
      Telephone operators were female because female voices were easier to understand on contemporary telephones (their voice frequencies had a better signal/noise ratio). Their hiring into this specific profession is in fact a counter-example to inclusivity, since one gender was predominantly hired for this role specifically.

I'm sure AT&T was a very diverse place when Bell invented the telephone. Same with early Microsoft or Google. The likely answer is lack of funding. The median app is very poorly made.

long_time_gone 5y ago

There are multiple types of diversity, no? ==Women pioneers have been a part of AT&T since 1878. That’s when Emma Nutt joined a team of teenage boys at a telephone exchange in Boston to become the first female operator. Within a few years almost all the telephone operators were women. Those female operators rose to the occasion during World War I, operating the telephone switchboards for the U.S. Army in France.== ==“As a result, AT&T and its subsidiaries became the largest employer of women in the United States,” he said. “At its peak, in the early 1950s, AT&T employed over 200,000 women as telephone operators.”== https://about.att.com/pages/our_people/Our_innovators/female_firsts https://about.att.com/pages/our_people/Our_innovators/female...

throwaway3699 5y ago
Sure, but aren't you implying there no female developers that would work on this software?
- long_time_gone 5y ago
  I’m not implying anything. I’m stating the fact that diversity can come in many different shapes, sizes, and shades as shown by AT&T. It’s also worth point this out as well while we are talking about AT&T and politics: “ Cramer calls AT&T the ‘most Republican of any publicly traded company’” https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/09/cramer-calls-att-the-most-republican-of-any-publicly-trade-company.html https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/09/cramer-calls-att-the-most-re...
  - majewsky 5y ago
    Telephone operators were female because female voices were easier to understand on contemporary telephones (their voice frequencies had a better signal/noise ratio). Their hiring into this specific profession is in fact a counter-example to inclusivity, since one gender was predominantly hired for this role specifically.