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I don't think the people standing on the sidelines crying wolf really understand the situation. The reality is that there are VERY FEW female graduates doing a
by NTDF9 12y ago
I don't think the people standing on the sidelines crying wolf really understand the situation.
The reality is that there are VERY FEW female graduates doing anything related to tech. That's why tech is male dominated.
Go look at CS, EE, ECE departments of any school. There are very few women.
Outside of tech, gender bias is very common. Why? Because some roles require skills that the other gender did not develop (nature or nuture..no idea)
Example, firefighters are a male dominated role. Nurses are a female dominated role.
Are there exceptions? Yes.
Are either of these groups sitting together in a big "dickfest/boobfest" meeting and actively deciding not to hire the other gender? No.
Most women complaining from the sidelines should go and develop skills that male-dominated roles require. Also, be ready to compete for a job. If you want to be treated like men, be willing to accept job rejections. For every male hired in a role, there were many other males rejected. Just being male wasn't enough.
Subtle nuance but an important one to understand that nobody is colluding against women.
- MollyR 12y agoI suspect a lot people just don't want to compete, or think they deserve a job just for showing up to the interview. Sometimes I wonder if this is a side effect of the all children deserve a trophy culture. People can't accept that they aren't good enough, and need to train some more or develop the right skills. Or maybe social media has made us sociopathic narcissists ? I don't know
- pc2g4d 12y agoThe real question would seem to be why females get filtered out of tech before finishing college. Were they pushed away from it along the way, or just not interested? Maybe crowding into a CS computer lab dungeon full of sweaty, stinky twenty-something men was unappealing?
- vellum 12y agoIt starts earlier than college. The male/female ratio for Advanced Placement Computer Science test-takers is 80/20, which mirrors the ratio in the industry. AP Biology, on the other hand, is 42/58. http://www.exploringcs.org/resources/cs-statistics http://www.exploringcs.org/resources/cs-statistics
- NTDF9 12y ago>> Maybe crowding into a CS computer lab dungeon full of sweaty, stinky twenty-something men was unappealing? >> why females get filtered out of tech before finishing college? This is the reason. Some jobs need sweating. No way around it. Most women want the pay and benefits without the sweat.