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by taysic 9y ago
Is it worth it? As far as I can tell, it's a voluntary initiative by Google which is well meaning. And I question if it really "hurts" anyone. Hiring processes are never perfect but Google seems to do a good job out of anyone
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Well said. I thought the memo was well written with poor reasoning as to causation. Though the memo said there were influences outside of biology, it spent no time exploring them.
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The physical is different from the mental. Are you saying women are less mentally capable? I can't tell but this is basically exactly why women feel legitimizing this line of discussion is unproductive.
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As a woman I can say "women are less inclined to be engineers" is only a skip and hop away from "women are not suited to be engineers. I would say don't even bother with the biological argument because as a woman you lik
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It's Google that is voluntarily taking on these policies, no? Wouldn't they know their self-interest better?
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My understanding of quota is the higher ups saying "We can't micromanage every aspect of your hiring process, but we see there are about 20% qualified women for these tech jobs. So as long as you generally hit this amount, pick th
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by taysic 9y ago
The women who get hired at Google only do so if they pass a stringent interview. So how is this different from what you're saying?
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I think Bitcoin has potential but the majority of people do not want their everyday currency to change value everyday
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It way too volatile and uncertain. It literally depends on a decentralized network that no one can control exactly so that why it keeps getting shut down
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by taysic 9y ago
So just because theories are "evidence-free" or too hard to make studies around, they are untrue? My experience should count for something because I am actually a woman in tech, who loves to code, who started my own successful tec
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by taysic 9y ago
I disagree with your assessment because I haven't been exposed to extreme feminist philosophy but rather I'm speaking from my experience as a woman in tech, who loves to code, from the wisdom of my personal journey. Ok women are m
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The point of these policies isn't to make things look good in a picture but to reduce the effect of existing biases in hiring woman. And to give people a chance after some questionable history. Diversity of thought is an admirable thin
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"He's saying that the inability to get to a 50/50% split on gender lines may be unrealistic" Sure that's fair. I say that as a woman - I have no expectation to reach 50/50. However it's debatable if these
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I suppose you can say his argument was implied then in my eyes since he spent the first large part of the memo reviewing the biology of women and then stopped short there. No time was spent exploring inherent biases in history or how they m
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There's plenty of diversity of opinion within a workplace. No one is obligated to listen to it. If it's made this public so as to embarrass their own company, well what can you do. People get fired for dumber reasons.
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One of his main points in the memo is at the top:"Differences in distributions of traits between men and women may in part explain why we don’t have 50% representation of women in tech and leadership. " What am I missing? This is
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by taysic 9y ago
Why even bother mentioning biology then if there are other influences more important and relevant? It seemed very emphasized. They did not fire him because they didn't believe in the studies he linked. Obviously that's very much m
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by taysic 9y ago
I really don't care what political opinion my coworkers have. But if they feel called to publish a memo about company policy that affects me due to this political opinion - it better be a very open discussion in such a way that they ca
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By not firing him, the same thing would have happened. Except now that vocal group would be Google employees too who feel uncomfortable at their workplace. Anti-science way? Do you realize how subjective this is and how impossible it is to
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"He could have wrestled with the tension between population-level research and individual experience. He could have stood up for the free flow of information." Honestly I don't agree. It's his job to facilitate an enjoya
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by taysic 9y ago
Not really. I can tell you as a woman in tech, one of the things I love most about my job is interacting with machines. Machines are simple, people are complex. Plenty of women spend their whole day on a computer at work with only minimal m
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by taysic 9y ago
I can tell you as a woman, yes woman care about people but we don't really care that much. We care about money too. ;) We can get a lot of our people needs through family. A lot of the jobs woman choose are just due to money- especiall
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by taysic 9y ago
I agree with you. My journey as a woman in tech involved challenging certain belief systems within myself and was a critical though subtle part of learning to code. However my understanding is that these policies are not put in place to cor
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The question to ask is - do these policies counter balance existing prejudices and biases in tech? As a woman in tech, I say they do. You may disagree but I think this discussion requires a lot of input and studies that analyze this topic.
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by taysic 9y ago
Really well said. This matches my experience as a woman in tech. There is nothing inherently about tech that makes it unenjoyable to woman. It's just an image problem and discomfort being part of a minority. Nothing biological about it
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I'm a woman. I didn't know what I wanted to do when I went to school so I chose CS on a whim. My life did not live and breathe code and I'm not someone who "appears" to be a programmer. However I too am self motivat
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Actually if you read the article she gives an example of seeing firsthand that a female was less likely to be accepted for a position with the same qualifications and it opened her eyes. The title is just click-baity
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"Diversity of thought means being open to people with different perspectives and opinions." Where exactly do you draw that line? As some thoughts are felt as hostile/ insulting to other people and enter grey territory. You ca
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I think there is a big fallacy with this statement: "What the government cannot do directly, it now requires employers to do in its stead: police 'discriminatory' speech." Far from it. Avoiding discriminatory speech is v
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by taysic 9y ago
As I already explained diversity of thought isn't appropriate in a workplace. If it were, that would mean bullying and teasing would be appropriate. The problem is where to draw that line. Where Google drew this line was firing someone

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