Visualization of Gender Disparity in Tech
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Visualization of Gender Disparity in Tech
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Re: Visualization of Gender Disparity in Tech
#2It would be interesting to see if a similar visualization for nurses and primary education teachers would show a similar pattern (with the gender reversed, of course) or if the gap would have different characteristics and distribution.
Re: Visualization of Gender Disparity in Tech
#3It would be interesting to see if a similar visualization for nurses and primary education teachers would show a similar pattern (with the gender reversed, of course) or if the gap would have different characteristics and distribution.
Indeed. That would be interesting. I haven't looked, but I wonder if the data is readily available...
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#4Who says tech companies do better when there are more women?
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#5"We can do better" translated to: Let us join the feminist bandwagon please.
What's funny is that, even using infographics and stats to show how "unfair" it is, stats don't lie: The companies that have more than 18% women are mostly chick stuff: Fashion, blogging, etc.
Hard core tech companies still employ mostly dudes, and they will continue to employ dudes. If they change that, they'll get into Gawker club.
I am seeing this stupid trend recently. GE shared an article on their LinkedIn page, to which I replied with this [0].
Some company is paying teachers to teach girls to code, but they're not paid when they teach boys.
This is absurd. This is stupid. There's a reason most jobs in tech are taken by men:
- Most tech students are male. (So women start to get filtered out way before there's even a job involved - They pursue other stuff like marketing, arts, design, etc). There are few girls in Engineering. That's why Engineering students frequent girls who are not in Engineering.
- Once they graduate, there are still more men than women applying for jobs in tech. A lot of women will do something else. There is less an urge for a woman to achieve something, and less drive, than there is for a man. If you disagree with me, you are dellusional since you are basically contradictin History and Biology and Now: How many Fortune 500 companies were started and are run by women. Thank you.
It is a bit phony that these companies try to "promote" this. I love women. I've been intimate with more women in a couple of months than the average dude in a lifetime.
However, let's not start writing crap. Heroku ? James Lindenbaum, Adam Wiggins, Orion Henry. Three guys. Why isn't there a woman with you ? Is it that maybe you didn't know any woman who could fill in ?
I ask those guys: When you were in Engineering ? How many girls were there, and from those girls, how many could hack it.
I'm tired of this stupidity. I'm tired of this leveling from bottom.
Soldiering isn't for everyone. Soon I'll make a petition asking the special forces to let me in: Why is it a problem for you to let me in, even if I can't lift a dude and run with him, even if I need a pillow to sleep !? Intolerant bastards ! Make a rule to lower your standards to suit me.
And soon, people who don't bear the sight of blood will lobby to take blood out of surgery. Would you trust such a surgeon with your life ! Eww, blood !
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#6Who says tech companies do better when there are more women?
I have a hard time imagining that there are many companies who benefit from a monoculture. Diversity equals truth, or more accurately, increases the likelihood of finding truth.
If your business makes any decisions, like "how do we capture this market," or "what sort of features should we add," or "how should this thing work," then you are embarking on a truth-seeking endeavor.
Unless your product aims to solve a problem that only affects white guys in the city (which, to be fair, is certainly a non-negligible number of products), then you're going to have a hard time expanding your base beyond white guys in the city if your team consists of only white guys in the city.
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#7Who says tech companies do better when there are more women?
Exactly. This is stupid. There was some bogus Gallup "study" that says that companies performed 15% better when there were more women, and I call bullshit on this. They didn't say which companies, and in which fields these companies activate in.
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#8Who says tech companies do better when there are more women?
I can't tell if you're being serious, so I'll assume that you are. One google search led me to this study: "gender diversity generates significant gains in high-tech/
knowledge intensive sectors".
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#9No idea where the 37Signals number came from... this is the Basecamp team today: https://basecamp.com/team
The Basecamp team is 8/43 women - NONE of whom are accounted for here. That's a huge factual miss on the very first company I recognized & fact-checked. Doesn't fill me with confidence.
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#10"We can do better" translated to: Let us join the feminist bandwagon please. What's funny is that, even using infographics and stats to show how "unfair" it is, stats don't lie: The companies that have more than 18% women are mostly chick stuff: Fashion, blogging, etc. Hard core tech companies still employ mostly dudes, and they will continue to employ dudes. If they change that, they'll get into Gawker club. I am se…
I'm tired of tech missing out on so much potential from those with two X chromosomes. If tech was more inclusive, there would be far more great engineers to hire from.
>It is a bit phony that these companies try to "promote" this. I love women. I've been intimate with more women in a couple of months than the average dude in a lifetime.
Look at that last sentence. You're young. That's fine. We were all stupid when we were young. I'm still stupid in many ways. But be careful about the stupid things that you record for posterity.