Re:How Lever (YC S12) Got to 50–50 Women and Men
by gaius on Saturday January 14, 2017 @04:03AM
(#13397601)
The question people aren't asking is why this actually matters
Oh that's an easy one. Literally no-one cared about this while the IT department was at the bottom of the corporate pecking order and sometimes literally at the bottom of the company in a windowless basement. But now it's important and well-paid and people sit in nice offices on Herman Miller chairs, and suddenly out of nowhere a bunch of people who weren't geeks at school, who hated the geeks, have appeared and started demanding that they get some of this money and prestige too. Brogrammers are another symptom of this exact same phenomenon.
I support women, but I support men too
I'm an engineer. I care about what's between your ears, not your legs! :-)
Oh that's an easy one. Literally no-one cared about this while the IT department was at the bottom of the corporate pecking order and sometimes literally at the bottom of the company in a windowless basement. But now it's important and well-paid and people sit in nice offices on Herman Miller chairs, and suddenly out of nowhere a bunch of people who weren't geeks at school, who hated the geeks, have appeared and started demanding that they get some of this money and prestige too. Brogrammers are another symptom of this exact same phenomenon.
I support women, but I support men too
I'm an engineer. I care about what's between your ears, not your legs! :-)