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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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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.

They do. And still its a job that needs to be done and the markets demand for people willing to do the work, should not be hampered by the basically hobbyist luxury choice of the individual making the education necessary for that demand a rare ressource.

Re: Girls in Tech closes its doors after 17 years

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> so that prices for labor will go down wut? Any one creating anything is DELIBERATELY driving price of that thing down for you I guess.

Yes, anyone who deliberately increases the supply of something does so in an effort to diminish the price of something.

The creation of computer science degree courses did not push down the price of software engineers.

Re: 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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> so that prices for labor will go down wut? Any one creating anything is DELIBERATELY driving price of that thing down for you I guess.

Yes, anyone who deliberately increases the supply of something does so in an effort to diminish the price of something.

Nonsense. Almost everyone who deliberately increases the supply of something does so in an effort to get paid for creating more of that something. Diminishing the price is at best an unintended second-order effect.

Re: Girls in Tech closes its doors after 17 years

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There is an expression which I think is fitting, in a weird way - a successful marriage does not have to last forever. For some reason, we always tend to imagine that, once a company or organization is created, it must last forever. That for it to ‘close its doors’ or ‘wind down’ is somehow a failure. And that’s just not true; a professional athletes career does not last forever, and neither does the lifespan of most…

This was my attitude when I stopped maintaining a large open-source project that I had created.

None of us last forever, in life or even just in this industry. To have brought about some sort of positive change is more than good enough.

Re: Girls in Tech closes its doors after 17 years

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> When pay went up it inverted and that is really the problem. Men colonized computing and pushed women out only when it became a source of good income and respected as a profession. You're using some loaded terms there. How exactly did men "push" women out of computing? Women were just as free as men to create their own tech startups. Yet in the past 50 years most tech startups and today's tech giants were created b…

You're conflating entrepreneur with engineer. Different skills entirely, which is why Jobs was never famous for his code and Wozniak isn't famous for his reality distortion field.

Is there a distinction between them as far as "women in tech" goes? The ratio of both compared to men is pretty much the same.

Re: Girls in Tech closes its doors after 17 years

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Yes, anyone who deliberately increases the supply of something does so in an effort to diminish the price of something.

Nonsense. Almost everyone who deliberately increases the supply of something does so in an effort to get paid for creating more of that something. Diminishing the price is at best an unintended second-order effect.

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Re: Girls in Tech closes its doors after 17 years

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Better article with more information: https://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/news/2024/07/08/girls-... > In an email Monday, founder and CEO Adriana Gascoigne said “Girls in Tech will be closing its doors due to a lack of funding in 2023 and 2024.”

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