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It just means one of my explanations is far deeper than it looks on the surface - that the discrimination and discouragement against women in engineering starts
by beat 12y ago
It just means one of my explanations is far deeper than it looks on the surface - that the discrimination and discouragement against women in engineering starts at childhood.
- philh 12y agoRemark: There are two possible interpretations of "a persistent and difficult cultural bias against women in this industry". One is that this industry is culturally biased against women. The other is that there exists a cultural bias, possibly outside this industry, against women-in-this-industry. I don't think you'd say that the first one doesn't exist, and when you say discrimination starts at childhood, that sounds a lot like the second. One needs to be careful not to equivocate between the two, because they're different problems that have different causes and different solutions that need to be implemented by different people. When you describe the two of them together, as a single possible cause, you seem to be making this mistake.
- beat 12y agoYes, my initial phrasing was problematic. But the intent of the initial phrasing wasn't to blame IT culture for the problem, but rather to get people to consciously reject female inferiority as the cause of the problem.