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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 Dev
by 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 agoYes. 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.