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Seriously?

• Joeboy 11y ago
  Initially I was just like, oh look, there's a loony on the internet. Then people started upvoting it.
  • hamax 11y ago
    This ridiculous thing is the second top comment in the HN thread and people still try to say we don't have a problem with sexism in the industry.
    • Joeboy 11y ago
      Since we're there, I feel like saying that my own experience is that while the tech team is undoubtedly imperfect, we're generally less overtly sexist than our colleagues in management and other areas, and I feel like we get an unfairly bad rap. My own experiences make me skeptical that hiring bias or misogynistic culture are the reasons that women are more poorly represented in tech than in other business areas. I acknowledge that this is all anecdotal, and I don't work in SV or indeed the US. But I guess we agree that the OP's focus on ova and sperm is not a productive way forward.
• undersuit 11y ago
  Well no it's highly contrived. I would hope the world doesn't oscillate radically back and forth between extremes. But, if you hire more women than men to fix the skew, you're going to end up with more younger women in the department than men. Once the ratio has been fixed you return to free hiring, 50-50 or whatever is considered fair at the time. Years down the line all these women you hired to fix the ratio start retiring. Your ratio drops precipitously and you start hiring women again at a higher rate. This pulse continues, every 30, 40, or 50 years, it can converge or diverge depending on what the actual ratio of gender is in the hiring pool. By purposely hiring more women you are forcing the ratio away from it's natural state, and you will have to continue poking and prodding the numbers to continue being PC.
  • undersuit 11y ago
    I seem to have made some sort of mistake. On one of my computers the flagged comment doesn't appear and my comment appears to be the source of controversy.