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> I feel bad about not being able to find a way to let the author know that her article is currently being discussed on HN Her Twitter is in the site's footer, FYI.
I'm a tweetotaller. Perhaps one of you twitterers can take it up.
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In my team, where we have a 50-50 target goal, we were told that if we know a potential woman hire we should refer her not to the regular hiring track, but to a special "woman friendly" hiring track.
Is that evidence that there's a "softer" path to employment, or that the regular hiring track sucks?
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Is that evidence that there's a "softer" path to employment, or that the regular hiring track sucks?
Probably just means "Don't let her be interviewed by the guy we all know is a serial sexual abuser but whom we plan to do nothing about until after at least three women have gone viral with their stories of creepy abuse at his hands".
"All one should care about is - is this excellent or is it not? Is this right or is this wrong?" I generally agree with this article. But you can't be a white male and speak this way in silicon valley without being shamed and being labeled a Trump supporter. Especially if your company has militant diversity advocates.
And chances are you were still being racist/sexist but you didn't even realize it because you've got the wall shadows that deeply ingrained in you.
"All one should care about is - is this excellent or is it not? Is this right or is this wrong?" I generally agree with this article. But you can't be a white male and speak this way in silicon valley without being shamed and being labeled a Trump supporter. Especially if your company has militant diversity advocates.
Now I want to live in silicon valley... And chances are you were still being racist/sexist but you didn't even realize it because you've got the wall shadows that deeply ingrained in you.
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Now I want to live in silicon valley... And chances are you were still being racist/sexist but you didn't even realize it because you've got the wall shadows that deeply ingrained in you.
Uhhhhh I guess hacknernews doesn't let you delete comments or even edit them (wtf??) But it looks like I read the previous comment wrong and responded to something that wasn't actually said.
On the one hand, I agree. And on the other hand, I wonder how helpful it is to be writing this and posting it to HN instead of writing about some engineering subject and posting that instead. I think we need more women in tech talking about tech and less women in tech talking about the problems with being women in tech and only getting attention of the wrong kind -- for being women in tech. I mean, it's kind of recur…
To have women in tech talking about tech topics instead of what it feels like to be a woman in tech. Although the show is labeled "women in tech", it's simply to raise awareness of this. This is a good way to help our industry.
The political correctness climate is so unpredictable. I'm considered both sexist & feminist due to being a white male who doesn't pay attention to the gender of my non romantic relationships. Laissez faire ideals makes you an enemy of everyone in an age of 'allies'
I have not experienced this. How does it play out in real life? Can you give some examples?
For me, this works reasonably well, and meets about equal (quite moderate) resistance from tradition-minded people in countries as different as US and Russia. (This also illustrates that a culture predominant among engineers likely differs less between countries that between different social strata or education backgrounds in the same country. Compared to this, inter-gender differences can be very safely assumed to be zero.)
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Yes, I was puzzled at first, reading the article. Because I don't think of India as a paragon of sexual equality. But then, I realized that the author is probably upper-class.
Read the whole article. She makes it abundantly clear that her parents were not upper class. Just middle class what in the context of that region means "no private transportation of any sort let alone a car". I assume they had bicycles at most.