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This is real. Female engineers are overrepresented in big tech something like 3-4x the graduation rate. There just aren't any left over for startups that can't

This is real. Female engineers are overrepresented in big tech something like 3-4x the graduation rate. There just aren't any left over for startups that can't afford FAANG rates.

Cumpiler69 2y ago
> Female engineers are overrepresented in big tech something like 3-4x the graduation rate. Why is that? Virtue signaling? Discrimination on males?
- LPisGood 2y ago
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  - Cumpiler69 2y ago
    Why would those quality traits be specific to females in engineering? Engineering as a whole is a skill fungible regardless of gender so if a gender is hired by big-tech at 3-4x their graduation rates compared to the other gender, then there must be something at play. Think about it like this, if you'd use the same argument you gave me if the roles were reversed with men being 3-4x overrepresented in a well paying white collar career, everyone would cry sexism and discrimination and action being taken to "fix" that. So why isn't it when the genders are reversed?
    - LPisGood 2y ago
      > So why isn't it when the genders are reversed? Men occupy a position of institutional and societal power that makes such a comparison unhelpful, at best.
      - an_guy 2y ago
        Has the same energy as "President is black therefore talks about racism against blacks is unhelpful"
      - Cumpiler69 2y ago
        >Men occupy a position of institutional and societal power that makes such a comparison unhelpful, at best. That doesn't justify discrimination. You're using the same argument Nazis used to genocide Jews: "they're overrepresented in positions of wealth and power so it's ok to discriminate and kill them all because it's obviously their fault for your problems". You average man has no benefits in common with the top 1% of wealthy and powerful men who write the rules. The top 1% of Americans have more in common with the top 1% of Russians or Chinese then they do with your average Walmart American male. Why punish men todays for the original sin? This only leads to extremism as backlash.
        LPisGood 2y ago
        I’m not justifying discrimination. I’m justifying the comparison being bad, which it is.
LPisGood 2y ago
Is there any data out there that reflects this? That’s really interesting

This is real. Female engineers are overrepresented in big tech something like 3-4x the graduation rate. There just aren't any left over for startups that can't afford FAANG rates.

Cumpiler69 2y ago

> Female engineers are overrepresented in big tech something like 3-4x the graduation rate. Why is that? Virtue signaling? Discrimination on males?

LPisGood 2y ago
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- Cumpiler69 2y ago
  Why would those quality traits be specific to females in engineering? Engineering as a whole is a skill fungible regardless of gender so if a gender is hired by big-tech at 3-4x their graduation rates compared to the other gender, then there must be something at play. Think about it like this, if you'd use the same argument you gave me if the roles were reversed with men being 3-4x overrepresented in a well paying white collar career, everyone would cry sexism and discrimination and action being taken to "fix" that. So why isn't it when the genders are reversed?
  - LPisGood 2y ago
    > So why isn't it when the genders are reversed? Men occupy a position of institutional and societal power that makes such a comparison unhelpful, at best.
    - an_guy 2y ago
      Has the same energy as "President is black therefore talks about racism against blacks is unhelpful"
    - Cumpiler69 2y ago
      >Men occupy a position of institutional and societal power that makes such a comparison unhelpful, at best. That doesn't justify discrimination. You're using the same argument Nazis used to genocide Jews: "they're overrepresented in positions of wealth and power so it's ok to discriminate and kill them all because it's obviously their fault for your problems". You average man has no benefits in common with the top 1% of wealthy and powerful men who write the rules. The top 1% of Americans have more in common with the top 1% of Russians or Chinese then they do with your average Walmart American male. Why punish men todays for the original sin? This only leads to extremism as backlash.
      - LPisGood 2y ago
        I’m not justifying discrimination. I’m justifying the comparison being bad, which it is.

LPisGood 2y ago

Is there any data out there that reflects this? That’s really interesting