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It seems that the failure is in education for minorities in inner city neighborhoods. If minorities tend to live more to urban neighborhoods is it a surprise we

• Zigurd 11y ago
  That's obviously not the problem with women. Women are more numerous and, on aggregate, do better as college undergraduates than men. There's no excuse for that not having a large impact on hiring. It is therefore also possible that bias, if not exactly racism, factor in to the lack of progress on minority hires. There's a lot of room for the employers to try harder, before they can blame the education system.
  • austenallred 11y ago
    My computer science classes had an average of 98 boys to 2 girls. It seems to me that the problem may be a lot more systemic than hiring bias.
  • walshemj 11y ago
    well you would have to convince females aiming towards medical or legal careers to go into tech. "sorry suzy I know you realy wanted to be a vet or a lawyer but those courses are over subscribed - its CS for you"
  • throwit542 11y ago
    Eh, I've got a radical theory for why women don't sign up to take computer science classes. It's because they don't want to be nerds. Can you imagine what their sorority sisters would say?