We built voice modulation to mask gender in technical interviews

Re:We built voice modulation to mask gender in technical int... by Tarrosion on Wednesday June 29, 2016 @02:51PM (#12003751)

3.6 million software engineers? That seems really high - do you have a source?

WolframAlpha reports that in May 2016 there were 144.6 million workers in the USA and 87.2 male workers. That'd mean that 2.5% of all workers are software engineers. If you figure that 75% of software engineers are male (some quick searching suggests this is a conservative number), then >3% of all employed males are software engineers. My instinct is that's high, but if you have a source I'll happily become informed.

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Re:We built voice modulation to mask gender in technical int... by jotux on Wednesday June 29, 2016 @03:02PM (#12003836)

BLS says 1.1M: http://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/s...

But if you add a bunch of similar fields that probably have software engineers you could probably get close to 3M: http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm#15-0000

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