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Why is that mind blowing?
Also, they're saying: "At least half of our Tweepforce will be women". So they're suggesting that more than 50% of one gender is ok, as long as they're women.
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Here's a reality check for you. "Fire brigade relaxes strength and fitness test to make entry easier for women" [1] This stuff has precedent. [1] https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1375381/Fire-servic...
> “Here’s a reality check for you with a completely different scenario but a conclusion that reaffirms my bias” It’s really a terrible argument to compare hiring for a physically intensive job to hiring for technical and administrative roles. it borders on bad faith.
Maybe they realized that 71% of Silicon Valley being foreign-born H1b visa holders isn’t really the best image for ‘diversity’? https://slate.com/technology/2022/11/meta-facebook-layoffs-h... Bonus: almost half of Meta employees are from Asia. Reminds me of a screenshot of WPengines ‘diversity’ pledge on their website that proceeded to state nearly 80% of their staff were female. They changed it not long after.
This last paragraph reminds me of a all hands monthly meeting a while ago during which the DE&I lady reported that we did great with diversity during the past month by hiring ~80% women.
Interesting that they use the term "Latinx", a term actively disliked by many Hispanic Americans. It's a white person word.
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do we have data showing that men and women who self select into the profession are equally capable?
Best I could find was "SAT patterns and engineering and computer science college majors: an intersectional, state-level study" It looked at Virginian public school graduates. Non-URM (underrepresented minority) men and non-URM women who majored in computer science scored similarly on the math part of their SATs. Women scored 3% better on their verbal.
In fact, taking that paper, it suggests that males are about 30-100% or even more more likely to enroll in an ECS major across the range of math scores.
For example, among those participants with a math score of 700, about 15% of females vs 30% of males end up enrolling in an ECS major.
Interesting that they use the term "Latinx", a term actively disliked by many Hispanic Americans. It's a white person word.
Also I have a question, where do Indians appear in these stats? Under Asian?
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I think the bigger problem here is 50% for women. Mind blowing.
Yeah, same logic applies.
It’s just not possible to get 50% of women in without significant handicaps to the interview process.
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Because the pool of male engineers is ~4-8x larger than female candidates, so hiring 50% women is intentionally hiring worse employees because of their genitals.
The pool is skewed male because of sexist bullshit. Computers used to be viewed as predominantly clerical and thus women were far more prevalent. And it’s patently false to assume it has to effect hiring quality at all.