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To be fair you might expect that, if you have a command economy you can say "how can we get more women in IT?" and answer with "Take women out of nursing and pu
by jiggy2011 14y ago
To be fair you might expect that, if you have a command economy you can say "how can we get more women in IT?" and answer with "Take women out of nursing and put them in IT".
- mich41 14y agoYou can't do this and expect them to be competent IT workers. You couldn't do this 50 years ago and you can't today.
- jiggy2011 14y agoThis is the USSR , you don't care about that. If they don't work fast enough you can "incentivise" them.
- gngeal 14y ago"To be fair you might expect that, if you have a command economy you can say "how can we get more women in IT?" and answer with "Take women out of nursing and put them in IT"." During WW2 in Russia, the Soviets had female snipers and female fighter aces. Why shouldn't they have females in a new, blurry position of a computer programmer - a position so new and so alien to most people that no stereotypes could have evolved by then?