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"We can do better" translated to: Let us join the feminist bandwagon please. What's funny is that, even using infographics and stats to show how "unfair" it is

"We can do better" translated to: Let us join the feminist bandwagon please. What's funny is that, even using infographics and stats to show how "unfair" it is, stats don't lie: The companies that have more than 18% women are mostly chick stuff: Fashion, blogging, etc. Hard core tech companies still employ mostly dudes, and they will continue to employ dudes. If they change that, they'll get into Gawker club. I am seeing this stupid trend recently. GE shared an article on their LinkedIn page, to which I replied with this [0]. Some company is paying teachers to teach girls to code, but they're not paid when they teach boys. This is absurd. This is stupid. There's a reason most jobs in tech are taken by men: - Most tech students are male. (So women start to get filtered out way before there's even a job involved - They pursue other stuff like marketing, arts, design, etc). There are few girls in Engineering. That's why Engineering students frequent girls who are not in Engineering. - Once they graduate, there are still more men than women applying for jobs in tech. A lot of women will do something else. There is less an urge for a woman to achieve something, and less drive, than there is for a man. If you disagree with me, you are dellusional since you are basically contradictin History and Biology and Now: How many Fortune 500 companies were started and are run by women. Thank you. It is a bit phony that these companies try to "promote" this. I love women. I've been intimate with more women in a couple of months than the average dude in a lifetime. However, let's not start writing crap. Heroku ? James Lindenbaum, Adam Wiggins, Orion Henry. Three guys. Why isn't there a woman with you ? Is it that maybe you didn't know any woman who could fill in ? I ask those guys: When you were in Engineering ? How many girls were there, and from those girls, how many could hack it. I'm tired of this stupidity. I'm tired of this leveling from bottom. Soldiering isn't for everyone. Soon I'll make a petition asking the special forces to let me in: Why is it a problem for you to let me in, even if I can't lift a dude and run with him, even if I need a pillow to sleep !? Intolerant bastards ! Make a rule to lower your standards to suit me. And soon, people who don't bear the sight of blood will lobby to take blood out of surgery. Would you trust such a surgeon with your life ! Eww, blood ! [0]http://bitly.com/1oKeYZJ http://bitly.com/1oKeYZJ

epistasis 13y ago
I'm tired of tech missing out on so much potential from those with two X chromosomes. If tech was more inclusive, there would be far more great engineers to hire from. >It is a bit phony that these companies try to "promote" this. I love women. I've been intimate with more women in a couple of months than the average dude in a lifetime. Look at that last sentence. You're young. That's fine. We were all stupid when we were young. I'm still stupid in many ways. But be careful about the stupid things that you record for posterity.
- Jugurtha 13y ago
  >I'm tired of tech missing out on so much potential from those with two X chromosomes. If tech was more inclusive, there would be far more great engineers to hire from. I trust female engineers who rock will not have difficulty finding a job, and if they do, I'm sure they have the drive to start their own company. >Look at that last sentence. You're young. That's fine. We were all stupid when we were young. I'm still stupid in many ways. But be careful about the stupid things that you record for posterity. I'm 26, quote me on a marble rock if you wish. PS: I don't like your idea implying that being intimate with women is stupid and reckless. It's insulting to me, and to the female gender. Oh, and I upvoted you. Because you voiced your opinion.
bmelton 13y ago
You're not wrong, but I detail in another comment on here why it is indeed beneficial to hire women. My wife started the Baltimore and DC chapters of "Girl Develop It", which aims to solve your first and second bullet points. The irony, of course, being that whether or not you believe in the gender pay gap, the gap definitely seems to be smaller in tech. Perhaps that's due to the relatively small amount women in tech currently (meaning the gap would grow as diversity increased), or perhaps that's because tech companies tend to be run more analytically (at least at early states) and less on negotiated value, but either way, it's surprising to me that more women aren't flocking to tech, as it likely holds higher relative wages for them, both because of the field, and because of the lessened gender gap.
- Jugurtha 13y ago
  Yes. Well, where I live men and women are paid the same. Though what intrigues me is the fact people turn a blind eye and go "Oh, why on Earth there are so few women in Tech". Well, I'm an Engineer and every Engineering year, the ratio dudes/girls is as high as Burj Al Arab. It's not for nothing there are clichés like "Girls don't do tech and if they do, they do Biology". Stereotypes, maybe. But "60% of the time, it works every time". You ask a girl in a Sci&Tech University what she does, most of the time it's Biology. There aren't that many girls programmers. And then there are fewer female programmers who are good (that's natural, being good is rarer than being average. Valid for men, too) who have to compete with a more important number of men programmers. Just probabilities, yet people want to make an exclusively political/segregation/unfair matter.

epistasis 13y ago

I'm tired of tech missing out on so much potential from those with two X chromosomes. If tech was more inclusive, there would be far more great engineers to hire from. >It is a bit phony that these companies try to "promote" this. I love women. I've been intimate with more women in a couple of months than the average dude in a lifetime. Look at that last sentence. You're young. That's fine. We were all stupid when we were young. I'm still stupid in many ways. But be careful about the stupid things that you record for posterity.

Jugurtha 13y ago
>I'm tired of tech missing out on so much potential from those with two X chromosomes. If tech was more inclusive, there would be far more great engineers to hire from. I trust female engineers who rock will not have difficulty finding a job, and if they do, I'm sure they have the drive to start their own company. >Look at that last sentence. You're young. That's fine. We were all stupid when we were young. I'm still stupid in many ways. But be careful about the stupid things that you record for posterity. I'm 26, quote me on a marble rock if you wish. PS: I don't like your idea implying that being intimate with women is stupid and reckless. It's insulting to me, and to the female gender. Oh, and I upvoted you. Because you voiced your opinion.

bmelton 13y ago

You're not wrong, but I detail in another comment on here why it is indeed beneficial to hire women. My wife started the Baltimore and DC chapters of "Girl Develop It", which aims to solve your first and second bullet points. The irony, of course, being that whether or not you believe in the gender pay gap, the gap definitely seems to be smaller in tech. Perhaps that's due to the relatively small amount women in tech currently (meaning the gap would grow as diversity increased), or perhaps that's because tech companies tend to be run more analytically (at least at early states) and less on negotiated value, but either way, it's surprising to me that more women aren't flocking to tech, as it likely holds higher relative wages for them, both because of the field, and because of the lessened gender gap.

Jugurtha 13y ago
Yes. Well, where I live men and women are paid the same. Though what intrigues me is the fact people turn a blind eye and go "Oh, why on Earth there are so few women in Tech". Well, I'm an Engineer and every Engineering year, the ratio dudes/girls is as high as Burj Al Arab. It's not for nothing there are clichés like "Girls don't do tech and if they do, they do Biology". Stereotypes, maybe. But "60% of the time, it works every time". You ask a girl in a Sci&Tech University what she does, most of the time it's Biology. There aren't that many girls programmers. And then there are fewer female programmers who are good (that's natural, being good is rarer than being average. Valid for men, too) who have to compete with a more important number of men programmers. Just probabilities, yet people want to make an exclusively political/segregation/unfair matter.