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> an uneven gender ratio is by itself a deterrent to talented women considering the profession I agree, but law and medicine weren't always ~50% male/female an
by frostmatthew 12y ago
> an uneven gender ratio is by itself a deterrent to talented women considering the profession
I agree, but law and medicine weren't always ~50% male/female and the comment you're replying to was suggesting we [tech] learn from them. So you can't dismiss it as an unsolvable problem that feeds itself (there aren't many female developers so it deters women to become developers) since this has been solved in law and medicine.
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- jiggy2011 12y agoMedicine had female nurses before it had female doctors, so maybe that helped?
- e12e 12y agoI don't think so. It's (almost) like saying law firms had female secretaries. AFAIK most places have trouble recruiting enough male nurses (and probably secretaries?) -- so it's not like the gender balance is uniform across "legal" or "health".
- jiggy2011 12y agoI'm thinking of the case where for example a female nurse encourages her daughter to become a doctor because it is a more aspirational career in the same field. OTOH a male doctor is probably not as likely to encourage his son to become a nurse because that is generally perceived as a step down in terms of prestige and pay.