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Re:We built voice modulation to mask gender in technical int... by grb423 on Wednesday June 29, 2016 @04:23PM (#12004534)
I worry about this mentioning occupations' "prestige." That seems to be incompatible with our goals of universal equality. We shouldn't discount gender bias because of privilege.
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Re:We built voice modulation to mask gender in technical int... by Bartweiss on Thursday June 30, 2016 @09:47AM (#12008452)
I didn't mean to address whether prestige is necessary to consider an occupation.

Rather, I was drawing parallels between software and radiology careers, and observing that one is considered a major, public issue while the other is basically an internal discussion within medicine.

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