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> That is, if you're black, you start as a disadvantage and you benefit less from efforts to improve your employability. Or, that the best thing to improve you

• mlyle 4y ago
  > Or, that the best thing to improve your employability is adopting a typically white female name? - I don't think that would actually work that well. - Suggesting people should reasonably pretend to be white to get employment basically concedes that the game is broken, and it's kind of offensive to boot. - While women may get (barely) more callbacks, I think we have filters earlier in life that make them less likely to end up with tech work; and we have filters later in life that tend to lower their economic compensation.
  • klipt 4y ago
    > concedes that the game is broken Duh? Why do you think immigrants to Anglo countries named Giovanni or Juan or Janek, have, since forever, changed their names to John? > While women may get (barely) more callbacks, I think we have filters earlier in life that make them less likely to end up with tech work Which suggests the optimal strategy is to either be a girl with a very enthusiastic tech parent who helps you overpower those toxic feminine norms. Or to be raised as a boy and then transition to a woman when you start working?