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Re:60% of women in tech reported unwanted sexual advances by smt88 on Thursday January 14, 2016 @12:48PM (#10902961)
What are you trying to accomplish by asking that (seemingly rhetorical) question?

Are you implying that 60% is an acceptable number because it may hold in other industries? Are you implying we should only focus on the industry with the highest rate of sexual harassment? Or are you implying that it's unfair to examine tech as a separate industry?

The fact is that tech is a particularly female-unfriendly industry, and it merits examination in isolation. Yes, we should examine all industries, but there's nothing wrong with a subset of people focusing on a subset of different industries.

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Re:60% of women in tech reported unwanted sexual advances by leaveyou on Thursday January 14, 2016 @01:38PM (#10903374)
I think there should be a state agency (employing women only) doing the examination the same way there is IRS for taxes but it should be funded by a tax applied to each woman's salary. They could be called FBI (Feminist Bureau of Investigation) and have their own SWAT (special women attack team) like IRS.
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