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Re:Facebook’s Point System Fails to Close Diversity Gap by AnthonyMouse on Friday August 19, 2016 @01:35AM (#12318163)
> It was a problem that there weren't more women mining coal when mining coal was an up and coming industry and one of the best ways for people to get ahead economically.

At which point you're seen as only caring about equality when it disadvantages women, which isn't how equality works.

It's just as important that we have a gender balance in coal miners (and nurses and teachers and prison inmates) as it is for software developers.

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Re:Facebook’s Point System Fails to Close Diversity Gap by reefoctopus on Friday August 19, 2016 @01:39AM (#12318173)
>It's just as important that we have a gender balance in coal miners (and nurses and teachers and prison inmates) as it is for software developers.

Or maybe we should stop preoccupying ourselves with this equality of outcome nonsense because in a free market people are allowed to choose their own career paths.

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