Ask a Female Engineer: How Can Managers Help Retain Technical Women?

Re:Ask a Female Engineer: How Can Managers Help Retain Techn... by anothercomment on Monday March 27, 2017 @04:21PM (#13971376)

So you think women don't go into plumbing because of cultural norms? Really?

Ok, I wish somebody would study that and find the reasons. The baby argument doesn't hold, though, because it makes a huge difference if it is your own baby.

Better comparison would perhaps be care of the elderly, which involves cleaning up shit but also has a social component.

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Re:Ask a Female Engineer: How Can Managers Help Retain Techn... by cmdrfred on Monday March 27, 2017 @04:34PM (#13971507)

If the argument there is so few women coders why isn't it also why are there so many male garbage collectors (I could list a great many undesirable jobs here), prisoners, homeless and combat fatalities? Is the goal to balance those out as well?

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Re:Ask a Female Engineer: How Can Managers Help Retain Techn... by XorNot on Monday March 27, 2017 @05:48PM (#13972109)

Yes.

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