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Should this even be discussed here? It’s not tech-related, and the "all professions need to be at least 50% female“ argument always leads to the same, emotional
by brodo 2y ago
Should this even be discussed here? It’s not tech-related, and the "all professions need to be at least 50% female“ argument always leads to the same, emotional discussions.
- LitFan 2y agoSeeing a parallel to another field with more blatant examples of the types of discrimination keeping women out of tech-related jobs is helpful. And more discussion around these issues is more likely to lead to positive outcomes than ignoring them.
- rootusrootus 2y ago> And more discussion around these issues is more likely to lead to positive outcomes than ignoring them. Sometimes I wonder. The left spends a lot of time pointing out that the right is bigoted, and the right just shrugs, because so what? These two groups disagree on whether there is a problem.
- SoftTalker 2y agoIt's not computing related, but welding is (or can be) quite a technical field, requiring years of education and experience, particulary welding exotic materials or in critical applications such as nuclear reactors. It's not all muffler shop work.
- mmooss 2y ago> "all professions need to be at least 50% female“ I think you are the only one who said that?
- JasserInicide 2y agoSome of us like the off-beat articles. Can only take so many "literal who tech blogger tells me why how I'm doing things is wrong" posts
- bitcharmer 2y ago[flagged]