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Re:The Yale Problem Begins in High School by saint_fiasco on Wednesday November 25, 2015 @04:59PM (#10630035)
You are wrong that there is a shortage of nurses and possibly programmers, but maybe the shortage of nurses is because men who would be good nurses don't want to become nurses for whatever reason.

Convincing more people who have good nurse-aptitudes that becoming a nurse is worthwhile is a legitimate strategy for increasing the number of nurses. Same for people who have good programmer-aptitudes and have been discouraged from playing with computers and stuff because of their gender.

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Re:The Yale Problem Begins in High School by barrkel on Wednesday November 25, 2015 @06:11PM (#10630392)
The point, though, is that's not what these tech equality conferences are about - they are about equalizing the gap, i.e. it is the gap that is important, not the value of the work being done (or otherwise).
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