Women rise through the ranks of IT more rapidly than men

Re:Women rise through the ranks of IT more rapidly than men by bbctol on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @03:42PM (#12687873)

It's unfortunate if you don't have a white man's name...

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Re:Women rise through the ranks of IT more rapidly than men by LyndsySimon on Wednesday October 12, 2016 @10:18AM (#12693030)

I'm a white man and my name is Lyndsy. My experiences thus far strongly suggest that success is not tied to having a male-sounding name.

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Re:Women rise through the ranks of IT more rapidly than men by reader5000 on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @04:35PM (#12688289)

I agree, but I don't think it's any more unfortunate than not having a Chinese name in China, Indian name in India, etc. Humans are inherently risk averse, and cultural conformity is an upshot of that. To penalize or otherwise persecute "white males" for having and participating in a culture seems unjust.

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Re:Women rise through the ranks of IT more rapidly than men by jakelazaroff on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @04:55PM (#12688450)

To be clear: you are saying that it is not unjust to penalize women and people of color for no reason other than the fact that they're not white men, but it is unjust to penalize white men to compensate for that.

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Re:Women rise through the ranks of IT more rapidly than men by bbctol on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @05:00PM (#12688481)

So you're saying we live in a culture that arbitrarily benefits white men, and thus it would be unjust to not arbitrarily benefit them.

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Re:Women rise through the ranks of IT more rapidly than men by reader5000 on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @07:07PM (#12689250)

I dont know what you think culture is, but to me culture is just how people generally behave in a particular area, so yes white men generally try to behave in a way that benefits them. Is this wrong?

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