Nevertheless, She Coded

I had heard wage gap wasn't an accurate disparity in software engineering jobs. Like there isnt a cabal of people at every company conspiring against equally qualified candidates based on gender.

In HIRED's report it seemed more common that people underbid themselves, and more often than not the company still gave people higher offers if they had underbid but these were still lower offers than for people that bid higher or overbid.

Lets work on it but we have to get the discussion right first. I think villifying a sexist boogeyman isn't going to get us anywhere if a persistent reality is more nuanced.

Re: Nevertheless, She Coded

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Post by prepend » Wed, Mar 08, 2017, 5:34 PM UTC

Pigo wrote: post #4

"continued pay disparity" here we go...

It would be interesting to see the data on this. I've worked in software development for 20 years and hired tons of people (maybe over 100). I think that professional jobs have the lowest pay disparity.

I would imagine it's really hard to measure the pay gap between programmers because there are literally coders that are 2x or 5x more productive than other coders. So I don't think it's as simple as checking all the people with "programmer" in their title by gender.

Re: Nevertheless, She Coded

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Post by and0 » Wed, Mar 08, 2017, 5:35 PM UTC

curyous wrote: post #3

The whole premise of this article as espoused in the first sentence, seems rather divorced from reality, to me.

Google Susan Fowler and/or stop being dishonest.

Re: Nevertheless, She Coded

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Post by oconnor663 » Wed, Mar 08, 2017, 5:36 PM UTC

dijit wrote: post #6

Virtue Signalling and attempting to divide the genders in the opening, before the quotes from women in tech. I expect better from The Practical Dev, you don't have to paint men in a derogatory light to bring up women.

> paint men in a derogatory light

I'm not sure I see what you're referring to. I don't think the article mentions men at all, apart from the senators?