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Girls in Tech closes its doors after 17 years

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Re: Girls in Tech closes its doors after 17 years

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Post by didgeoridoo »

InDubioProRubio wrote: post #10
strikelaserclaw wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

i don't think women should be discriminated against in whatever profession they want to go to if they have the ability but i also believe men and women are different in terms of interests and women and men will never reach 50-50 parity in engineering type professions.

I actually think - there should be. There are tons of woman who study to become a vet, for small pets. Nobody wants to be a vet for large animals. So, the good grade woman outcompete the boys who want to become vets, thus no vets for cows and other farm animals. The market should not have to put up with your preferences and if it has to it should lower your wage, due to oversupply.

Most large animal vets make substantially less money — I’d guess because ultimately most farm animals are disposable, while some people will pay tens (or hundreds) of thousands of dollars to keep their pet alive.

I bet the large animal vets who work on champion race horses are well-paid, though.

Re: Girls in Tech closes its doors after 17 years

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Post by dang »

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Re: Girls in Tech closes its doors after 17 years

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Post by defrost »

ta1635547 wrote: post #13
defrost wrote: post #7

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Sad to see you downvoted for a comment that's true to history. The pre personal computer days had an army of women in computing. The UK had “Steve” Shirley, she built a billionaire dollar tech company in the 1960s https://www.computer.org/publications/tech-news/research/dam... Growing up it was largely women that taught me how to fly and maintain aircraft, how to set the timing on shot holes to take apart square kilm…

Everything else aside, sounds like a cool history/life.

Started with being raised by a few former-WAAF pilots out of Australia who returned with heavy bombers to Truscott|Mungalalu airbase to take out Japanese oil supplies in WWII and stayed on.

Learnt a bit about shock waves from C Morawetz, some combinatorics from C Praeger, robotics from R Owens, etc.

https://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/research/online-exhibitions/wom...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathleen_Synge_Morawetz

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheryl_Praeger

https://www.researchweek.uwa.edu.au/speakers/robyn-owens/

Re: Girls in Tech closes its doors after 17 years

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Post by Hasu »

shrubble wrote: post #25

Non-profits closing means there is a financial reason; were there grants monies that ran out? Did another "women in STEM" non-profit get corporate sponsorship instead? The article doesn't say.

The (economic) purpose of Girls in Tech is to create more workers in software so that prices for labor will go down.

Given the layoffs of 2022-ongoing, labor costs in tech are dropping enough that interested parties aren't incentivized to increase the supply of labor further.

Re: Girls in Tech closes its doors after 17 years

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Post by worthless-trash »

strikelaserclaw wrote: post #5
newsbinator wrote: post #2

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every group tries to fight for equality and once thats achieved or close to achieved, they try to fight for an advantage, it is unfortunately rooted in the selfishness of human beings. Women seem to be attending college in greater numbers than men, soon we'll need programs to help men get a boost.

Removed.
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