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Re:Silicon Valley's women have spoken. Now what? by smt88 on Sunday July 02, 2017 @03:54AM (#14681413)
> women are freely choosing to pursue other careers which are more stereotypically female

Can you call it "freely choosing" when they're treated badly when pursuing male-dominated fields and treated well when pursuing female-dominated fields?

People don't like swimming upstream, for the most part. What they would choose "freely" and what they choose in the real world are often very different.

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Re:Silicon Valley's women have spoken. Now what? by MagnumOpus on Sunday July 02, 2017 @04:42AM (#14681545)
A. You are begging the question that they are more badly treated in tech than in accounting or health care.

B. They enter even uni or high school CS and physics courses at a fast lesser rate. Is that because of interest or because they make assumptions about being discriminated against 10 years down the line?

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