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I'm not sure I would want to take this to its logical conclusion. Imagine if it was mandated that every female engineer had to participate in university events.
by cbhl 12y ago
I'm not sure I would want to take this to its logical conclusion. Imagine if it was mandated that every female engineer had to participate in university events. Now the job responsibilities are different between the genders, and you've made the problem worse on a different axis (equality of job responsibilities).
Think about all the articles and blog posts written by female engineers who attend conferences and are insulted that they are perceived to be non-technical, or just a recruiter, and how such an initiative would make that worse.
- eropple 12y agoDo you seriously think they don't have a surfeit of volunteers? C'mon.
- paulwolf 12y agoProbably not. It's usually difficult to get an engineer to waste an entire day or two visiting a university for recruiting.
- ithkuil 12y agoYou'd be surprised.
- jtheory 12y agoHey, next Friday is Google's "make the world a better place" day... would you be interested in coming with me and (name) to give mini-talks at a few schools? -- I guess you'd have a tougher time if you actually call it "wasting an entire day" when you pitch the idea.
- icebraining 12y agoDon't mandate it then? There are other ways of convincing people besides bossing them around.