Re:Melinda Gates Has a New Mission: Women in Tech
by MollyR on Wednesday September 28, 2016 @10:26AM
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There has been movements for more female sanitation workers, as for male elementary school teachers and nurses, haven't heard of that.
The gender demographics of tech is important due to the perceived wealth and power of Silicon Valley.
I personally say perceived because I thinks its the VC's who have the real wealth and power.
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Re:Melinda Gates Has a New Mission: Women in Tech
by DanBC on Wednesday September 28, 2016 @10:47AM
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A mix of articles about men in nursing and men in teaching: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7088418
Re:Melinda Gates Has a New Mission: Women in Tech
by MollyR on Wednesday September 28, 2016 @11:49AM
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Thanks.
Half of those aren't about pushing men into nursing or teaching, not many are in valued news oulets( abc go). Its mostly blog posts, others are about the difficulties being a male nurse or teacher.
I also just googled "men in nursing" and "men in teaching" as quick sanity check.
Its pretty clear there is nowhere the same level of push we have going for women in tech and nowhere near the same social validation for pushing men into those fields.