Re:ElectronConf postponed until a “more diverse slate of spe...
by rayiner on Sunday June 04, 2017 @03:49PM
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It's a choice, but it's not the same choice. When a woman signs up to be an engineer, she's signing up for long hours debugging segfaults, just like a man. But unlike a man, she's signing up to spend four years in school being one of the handful of women in her class, then entering a workforce with the likes of Uber, etc. There signing up for a life of awkward encounters with coworkers, supervisors who try to date female employees, limited support networks, etc.
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Re:ElectronConf postponed until a “more diverse slate of spe...
by leereeves on Sunday June 04, 2017 @04:18PM
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None of that stopped women from entering law, medicine, business, etc.
Tech isn't new. Why haven't women chosen to enter tech in the same numbers they've chosen other male-dominated fields?
Re:ElectronConf postponed until a “more diverse slate of spe...
by rayiner on Sunday June 04, 2017 @05:41PM
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> None of that stopped women from entering law, medicine, business, etc.
As to law, it didn't happen by magic. After openly excluding women into the 1970s, law schools and law firms made concerted efforts to increase the representation of women. Large law firms not only track demographic information for hiring and promotions, they disclose it to legal publications who report on it. These days much of it has become self reinforcing. Frat culture has a hard time surviving in an environment where a big chunk of the clients are women (a quarter of existing Fortune 500 CLOs and a third of new ones are women).
Re:ElectronConf postponed until a “more diverse slate of spe...
by leereeves on Sunday June 04, 2017 @05:54PM
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That's all true of tech as well. People should seriously ask why women aren't choosing tech careers, because the "old boys club" or "frat culture" explanation isn't at all unique to tech.