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Re:Tech is the best industry for women by xxSparkleSxx on Thursday July 27, 2017 @05:18PM (#14869669)
Which industries do you think are MORE meritocratic than tech?

Tech's not perfect, but I think they do it better than most (all?).

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Re:Tech is the best industry for women by gitlabuser on Thursday July 27, 2017 @06:46PM (#14870375)
Professional sports are much more meritocratic than the tech industry.
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Re:Tech is the best industry for women by seppin on Thursday July 27, 2017 @05:40PM (#14869861)
> Which industries do you think are MORE meritocratic than tech?

None of them are, but tech isn't any better.

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Re:Tech is the best industry for women by jonas21 on Thursday July 27, 2017 @05:50PM (#14869944)
You're saying all industries are equally meritocratic? That seems hard to believe.
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Re:Tech is the best industry for women by seppin on Thursday August 03, 2017 @11:22AM (#14920362)
no, i'm saying none of them are particularly so, and none stands out as much more so than any other.
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Re:Tech is the best industry for women by vonmoltke on Thursday July 27, 2017 @06:36PM (#14870313)
Is it hard to believe that no industry is very meritocratic at all?
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Re:Tech is the best industry for women by stickfigure on Thursday July 27, 2017 @06:51PM (#14870411)
Sure - any industry that employs only True Scotsmen.
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Re:Tech is the best industry for women by owebmaster on Thursday July 27, 2017 @05:55PM (#14869977)
Sports? Music?
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Re:Tech is the best industry for women by yellowapple on Friday July 28, 2017 @01:33AM (#14872199)
I'm not really sure if music is all that meritocratic. In some circles, sure, but the mainstream seems to be dominated by pretty faces propped up by major labels.

This does seem to be changing for the better thanks to the Internet, but there's still a very long way to go.

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Re:Tech is the best industry for women by owebmaster on Friday July 28, 2017 @07:48AM (#14873523)
> I'm not really sure if music is all that meritocratic.

One thing for sure is that no industry in the world is all that meritocratic. But Music and Sports (even with the mainstream whitewash) for sure has a better social and racial distribution than any other industry I can think of.

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