Re:Facebook staff reject female engineers’ code more often, ...
by hyperdunc on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @09:19PM
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No one should be driven toward any field they aren't interested in, nor should they be actively discouraged from anything they are interested in.
Today, different families and schools push varying expectations onto children. This cultural aspect is layered on top of biological differences in body and intelligence.
If we remove cultural impediments and allow biology to express itself more fully, the uneven distribution of gender in different fields increases. In other words, the relative evenness of the distribution we currently have is socially constructed.
So I'm not convinced by the argument that women (and indeed many men) are dissuaded because they hold negative stereotypes of people and working culture in STEM fields. However, I'm willing to keep an open mind on this, so if this is true then more effort should be made to welcome in talented outsiders.
Today, different families and schools push varying expectations onto children. This cultural aspect is layered on top of biological differences in body and intelligence.
If we remove cultural impediments and allow biology to express itself more fully, the uneven distribution of gender in different fields increases. In other words, the relative evenness of the distribution we currently have is socially constructed.
So I'm not convinced by the argument that women (and indeed many men) are dissuaded because they hold negative stereotypes of people and working culture in STEM fields. However, I'm willing to keep an open mind on this, so if this is true then more effort should be made to welcome in talented outsiders.