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Tech is the best industry for women

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Re: Tech is the best industry for women

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Post by ghaff »

gitlabuser wrote: post #25

Personally, I think this article title is clickbait. Nowhere does the author show that it's the best industry for women, only that in her experience, it was a better industry than medicine and a biology lab. And then some fluff about meritocracy. No exhaustive comparison across all the industry areas, no dive into data beyond one singular experience. I'm tired of titles that don't explain what the article is about. S…

I don't really disagree with you in this case.

However, to be fair, headline writers have been writing "clickbait" headlines for far longer than there have been clicks. Headlines in magazines and newspapers have never been scientific journal titles.

Re: Tech is the best industry for women

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Post by austinheap »

needlessly wrote: post #16

She goes to MIT by the way. (not saying she doesn't deserve it) I bet if she went to some no-name university and people saw her pole dancing then her employment would be more limited

As a former dancer from a no name school I promise you no one cares. About the school. Or the dancing.

Re: Tech is the best industry for women

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Post by Karrot_Kream »

Rjevski wrote: post #39
Karrot_Kream wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> you didn't need a fancy degree to get a job. What's wrong with a fancy degree? I don't understand why fancy degree is used as a pejorative around here. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that most people these days that come from bootcamps make more money than people with "fancy degree"s.

Nothing wrong per se, but personally I see it as a waste of time - you could've built real products and actually improved the world during the time wasted on that fancy degree.

> actually improved the world during the time

You're gonna have to really qualify that statement. The vast majority of tech startups do not improve the world in any way.

Re: Tech is the best industry for women

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Post by catherinezng »

gitlabuser wrote: post #25

Personally, I think this article title is clickbait. Nowhere does the author show that it's the best industry for women, only that in her experience, it was a better industry than medicine and a biology lab. And then some fluff about meritocracy. No exhaustive comparison across all the industry areas, no dive into data beyond one singular experience. I'm tired of titles that don't explain what the article is about. S…

Agreed that this was clickbait. I was hoping to read insightful, personal anecdotes. She didn't offer any support for her claims other than: "I'm a pole dancer! And people still take me seriously in tech!" Not to mention the blatant self promotion throughout the piece.

Re: Tech is the best industry for women

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Post by mmmhmm »

This article is nothing more than the author bragging about how good she is at pole dancing, and how satisfied she is with her software developer job. Hardly HN-worthy, I would have thought.

That said, I achieved a significant measure of sexual arousal from observing her pole-dancing photos, so there's that. But still, hardly HN-worthy.

Re: Tech is the best industry for women

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Post by needlessly »

Rjevski wrote: post #22
needlessly wrote: post #16

She goes to MIT by the way. (not saying she doesn't deserve it) I bet if she went to some no-name university and people saw her pole dancing then her employment would be more limited

Do you have any facts to back this up? I would say education is pretty irrelevant if you've actually got something to show off (open source projects, etc).

it's pretty well known if you go to a top university, then you're more likely to get interviews if you don't have much professional experience outside internships.

I'm not saying you can't work at Google from a no-name university, but but there is a steeper hill.

Once you have like 7+ years of professional experience, then education matters less.

Re: Tech is the best industry for women

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Post by awgme »

Karrot_Kream wrote: post #32
barsonme wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Similarly here. School wasn't the best fit for me and tech was great because (like politics, which I also spent ~5 years in) you didn't need a fancy degree to get a job.

> you didn't need a fancy degree to get a job. What's wrong with a fancy degree? I don't understand why fancy degree is used as a pejorative around here. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that most people these days that come from bootcamps make more money than people with "fancy degree"s.

Nothing is wrong with a fancy degree, and I don't think OP is invalidating or shining a negative light on a fancy degree. OP is just saying that you could also get into tech/politics without the necessity of requiring one

Re: Tech is the best industry for women

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Post by jonny_eh »

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...

It's not very long, it's pretty quick to read/skim over. People likely upvoted because they agreed with the sentiment, if not every single word.
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