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Re:Ask a Female Engineer: Thoughts on the Google Memo by smallnamespace on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @11:22PM (#15024718)
Well, orchestras introduced blinded auditions in the 1970s, when there very few women, and now women are the majority in most orchestras.

So why do you think there is such a disparity in outcome?

Re:Ask a Female Engineer: Thoughts on the Google Memo by ShannonAlther on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @11:45PM (#15024811)
I don't know the answer but if I cared to guess, it might be because the talent pool for orchestra performers had significantly more gender parity than the talent pool competing for elite engineering jobs at Google.

Edit: Google says that their diversity platform is non-discriminatory because they're not changing their standards, but rather looking harder for qualified diversity candidates (paraphrasing). This makes the gargantuan and probably unwarranted assumption that there are a lot of these candidates not applying and that 'looking harder' will find them.