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Re: Tech is the best industry for women

#11

Post by symlinkk »

> But tech is hard on everyone, not just on me, not just on women.

It's considerably easier for women. Tech is:

1) One of the most male dominated fields

and

2) One of the most progressive and pro-diversity fields

So you combine those two together and you get hundreds of companies that will reject a more qualitifed male for a less qualified female because she will make the workforce more "diverse". Personally I find this practice repulsive and just as sexist as the thing it replaces, but I expect to get downvoted.

Re: Tech is the best industry for women

#13

Post by tajen »

wand3r wrote: post #3

50 votes, posted 12 minutes ago. No comments. Find it hard to believe that many people discovered and read it that quick...

Maybe people enjoy a bit of positivity about partially successful efforts towards diversity. It sometimes feels like all efforts towards it get little recognition and only more risks of being falsely accused. So when someone says something along the lines of "Some people are great, even males", it gets upvotes.

Re: Tech is the best industry for women

#14

Post by jmcgough »

symlinkk wrote: post #11

> But tech is hard on everyone, not just on me, not just on women. It's considerably easier for women. Tech is: 1) One of the most male dominated fields and 2) One of the most progressive and pro-diversity fields So you combine those two together and you get hundreds of companies that will reject a more qualitifed male for a less qualified female because she will make the workforce more "diverse". Personally I find t…

> you get hundreds of companies that will reject a more qualitifed male for a less qualified female because she will make the workforce more "diverse"

I have never ever ever heard of this happening, as much as some people like to scream "preferential treatment" with no evidence.

Re: Tech is the best industry for women

#15

Post by d3ad1ysp0rk »

symlinkk wrote: post #11

> But tech is hard on everyone, not just on me, not just on women. It's considerably easier for women. Tech is: 1) One of the most male dominated fields and 2) One of the most progressive and pro-diversity fields So you combine those two together and you get hundreds of companies that will reject a more qualitifed male for a less qualified female because she will make the workforce more "diverse". Personally I find t…

Hundreds of companies out of millions. A larger majority struggles with subconscious bias and won't do anything about it.

Re: Tech is the best industry for women

#17

Post by angersock »

hammerzeit wrote: post #4

Please, before this degrades into the inevitable shouting match, let's please consider that there are two things that can both simultaneously be true: 1.Tech is less bad than many, many other industries. I can personally speak to overt, even illegal sexism in the field of medicine at a level that would cause riots in tech. I’ve heard similar stories in academia, to say nothing of fields like manufacturing. We live in…

A reasonable concern is that "doing better" to some metric or agenda pushed by outsiders or johnny-come-latelies will result in the degradation of the ability to foster diversity and merit.

For example, how would the relatively sterile and sexless HR policies of Big Co. handle the pole dancing the author refers to? How long before that had to go too?

Re: Tech is the best industry for women

#18

Post by [deleted] »

jmcgough wrote: post #14
symlinkk wrote: post #11

> But tech is hard on everyone, not just on me, not just on women. It's considerably easier for women. Tech is: 1) One of the most male dominated fields and 2) One of the most progressive and pro-diversity fields So you combine those two together and you get hundreds of companies that will reject a more qualitifed male for a less qualified female because she will make the workforce more "diverse". Personally I find t…

> you get hundreds of companies that will reject a more qualitifed male for a less qualified female because she will make the workforce more "diverse" I have never ever ever heard of this happening, as much as some people like to scream "preferential treatment" with no evidence.

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Re: Tech is the best industry for women

#19

Post by Sorreah »

jmcgough wrote: post #14
symlinkk wrote: post #11

> But tech is hard on everyone, not just on me, not just on women. It's considerably easier for women. Tech is: 1) One of the most male dominated fields and 2) One of the most progressive and pro-diversity fields So you combine those two together and you get hundreds of companies that will reject a more qualitifed male for a less qualified female because she will make the workforce more "diverse". Personally I find t…

> you get hundreds of companies that will reject a more qualitifed male for a less qualified female because she will make the workforce more "diverse" I have never ever ever heard of this happening, as much as some people like to scream "preferential treatment" with no evidence.

I have never been in a company that didn't want more women joining, and every time I've heard people talk about potential recruits women were prioritized (and objectified usually but that's besides the point).
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