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Why There Are No Women on Twitter’s Board, and So Few in Technology

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Re: Why There Are No Women on Twitter’s Board, and So Few in Technology

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Post by USNetizen »

This sounds like it was written for a 12th grade research assignment and makes several incorrect inferences without a basis of fact, i.e. the male hunting equating to math reasoning.

I tend to think of it as the same reason minorities are not prevalent in these places either, probably because society held them as "lower class" until recently and they are just now making gains which are long overdue.

All in all, women are catching up fast to men in mathematics as well. They account for the fastest growing percentage of graduate degrees in the sciences and I, personally, work in a high-tech field dominated still by male developers, but also women managers who supervise them and do a fantastic job at it.

It's not biological, it's history. Until recently those spatial learning and building toys for children were all male-focused, but that is changing.

I firmly believe that women will easily overtake men in technology in the future because attitudes have changed for the better.

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Post by ninjac0der »

thatthatis wrote: post #8

Just positing that these things _might_ be true and should be investigated was a key factor in Larry Summers getting drummed out of his position as President of Harvard. The world at large isn't ready to hear these statistics, and overall that is probably a good thing. We shouldn't accept these disparities as driven by natural forces until we've tried everything we can imagine to try to bring the differences in line.…

>far more bad has been wrought by assuming differences were innate than assuming they were the result of bias.

I see more people causing harm trying to ignore natural differences, so I must ask, what have you observed that causes you to believe that?

"Don't just stand there, do something."

Re: Why There Are No Women on Twitter’s Board, and So Few in Technology

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Post by walshemj »

One other reason(apart from gender stereo typing) is the women who could go into traditionally male stem fields look at the poor pay and status and rationally decide that whist probably still facing a glass ceiling and sexism at lest they get paid better as Dr, Lawyer or Banker.

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Post by enjo »

USNetizen wrote: post #21

This sounds like it was written for a 12th grade research assignment and makes several incorrect inferences without a basis of fact, i.e. the male hunting equating to math reasoning. I tend to think of it as the same reason minorities are not prevalent in these places either, probably because society held them as "lower class" until recently and they are just now making gains which are long overdue. All in all, women…

sure...

sure...

I firmly believe that women will easily overtake men in technology

Huh?

Re: Why There Are No Women on Twitter’s Board, and So Few in Technology

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Post by tomp »

USNetizen wrote: post #21

This sounds like it was written for a 12th grade research assignment and makes several incorrect inferences without a basis of fact, i.e. the male hunting equating to math reasoning. I tend to think of it as the same reason minorities are not prevalent in these places either, probably because society held them as "lower class" until recently and they are just now making gains which are long overdue. All in all, women…

> I firmly believe that women will easily overtake men in technology in the future because attitudes have changed for the better.

Do you have any reason for this belief?

Also, if you really believe that is true, wouldn't it be proper to start promoting technology amongst boys?

Re: Why There Are No Women on Twitter’s Board, and So Few in Technology

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Post by wishpishh »

These studies just show that there is a difference. It doesn't say it's mainly caused by innate biological differences between the sexes. These differences could for all we know be the effect of the different social conditioning that we all get from birth. In reality it's probably somewhere in-between - both social conditioning and innate biological differences play a role but if I was to guess I'd say that the social conditioning is the largest factor of the two. But neither has been shown in these studies.
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