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I don't understand. I get the idea for us to self organize and bring about more diversity to the tech industry. What is lost on me with all these posts/comment

I don't understand. I get the idea for us to self organize and bring about more diversity to the tech industry. What is lost on me with all these posts/comments/arguments is that they act as if white males are trying to stop women and other minorities from entering the field. More than most fields, getting a job as a developer is based on objective facts. Can you solve x problem. Especially in a market where good talent is hard to come by, I can't imagine an employer saying, "well, you have the technical chops, but i'm not going to hire you bc you're a woman". This just doesn't happen. Yes, let's be open minded and work on making programming as accessible to as many ppl as we can. But, let's not start affirmative action here.

Fishkins 12y ago
Of course they won't say "well, you have the technical chops, but I'm not going to hire you bc you're a woman." What they might say is "she isn't technically qualified" when an identical technical demonstration by a man would have been perceived as proficient. Unless your technical assessments are purely-objective exercises graded by a machine, you or your coworkers are probably subject to these biases without realizing it. http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/unofficial-prognosis/2012/09/23/study-shows-gender-bias-in-science-is-real-heres-why-it-matters/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/unofficial-prognosis/201... (there a other similar studies; that's just one example) edit: "Bad culture fit" can also be a reason for not hiring whose underlying cause has to do with gender or other diversity.