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The article doesn't really say why they wanted more female engineers, other than "it was vital to the product." I'd like to see more women engineers, and I app
by auctiontheory 14y ago
The article doesn't really say why they wanted more female engineers, other than "it was vital to the product."
I'd like to see more women engineers, and I applaud Etsy's initiative, but it seems unlikely that adding a few more super-junior (freshly-trained) women developers to their staff is going to meaningfully change the product in the near term.
I suppose (hope) that these women could help prevent anti-female product boo-boos, like the time Microsoft offered "bitch" as the equivalent to "male" in a Windows XP Spanish localization.
- asveikau 14y agoI didn't know which company was accused of this, but the version I heard was that "female" was translated as "hembra". It does mean that, but you usually hear it applied to animals.[1] Probably an easy mistake for someone to make if they're told to translate a string without being made aware of the context. [1] The DRAE, considered the "dictionary of record" in Spain, says that female animal is definition 1, and female human is definition 2. http://lema.rae.es/drae/?val=hembra http://lema.rae.es/drae/?val=hembra
- jaimebuelta 14y ago"Hembra" used to be acceptable some time ago, but right now is controversial and not used in that context. It is still used for female animals, though. The same goes with the male equivalent: "macho", which now is only used for animals and not people. (Macho can be also used in a similar way as in english, but that's a different acception and context usage)