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Re:I’m an Ex-Google Woman Tech Leader and I’m Sick of Our Ap... by averagewall on Monday August 14, 2017 @10:31PM (#15014873)
Why does it need to change? Maybe both men and women are happy in their common jobs? Whatever the reason, nurses seem to choose nursing and programmers choose programming so they all get what they want.

There may be a sub-minority of women who want to be programmers but are discriminated out of it. That's not good but it's surely a tiny fraction of humans. Not worth changing everyone else's job for.

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Re:I’m an Ex-Google Woman Tech Leader and I’m Sick of Our Ap... by hnnsj on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @08:37AM (#15017579)
Do everyone seem to be fine with it? Why do we have these massive discussions about economic and work equality, then? Obviously a lot of people think it's a major problem. I think there's clear evidence for that. It's just that, in my opinion, most people are not really prepared to do what needs to be done to change, they'd rather just try in vain to treat the negative symptoms.
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