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There are many white collar industries where almost everyone came from universities where you have the freedom to pick your major and 2/3 of the student body we

There are many white collar industries where almost everyone came from universities where you have the freedom to pick your major and 2/3 of the student body were women. In these workplaces you will hear an immense amount of fuss over evening out any lopsided ratios, even pre-Elon Twitter stating they were going to make Twitter's workforce more than 50% women (??). Never have I heard a peep from these people any of my years of university or the workplace advocating more male representation in university. There is 100x the uproar about making university admissions match national race representation than there is gender representation. Why is that?

talldayo 2y ago
> Why is that? Because men are the largest predominant engineering demographic? Increasing male representation homogenizes your workforce and reduces the number of perspectives you're bringing to the problem. A product design team staffed only by men is destined to collapse unless they're only trying to market to other men. A smart board of directors knows that you make twice as much money targeting every demographic instead of just the one you've hired to build the product.
- lxm 2y ago
  > A product design team staffed only by men is destined to collapse unless they're only trying to market to other men If this is demonstrably true, where are the hedge funds shorting male-dominant firms and venture funds getting the edge by doing the opposite in the startup land? Seems like an obvious trade.