Let’s Use Hard Science to Help Tech Companies Advance Women

Re:Let’s Use Hard Science to Help Tech Companies Advance Women by TheAdamAndChe on Friday August 18, 2017 @01:17AM (#15043773)

Having women code has the potential to increase the tech worker labor pool significantly. I believe it's a PR move intended to lower IT costs and help make the upper 0.5% of the world even richer.

Most of the homeless aren't intelligent enough to code. Since no profit can be made from them, it's not a priority.

This is what happens when capitalism goes unchecked. Profit is the largest priority in the world.

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Re:Let’s Use Hard Science to Help Tech Companies Advance Women by mc32 on Friday August 18, 2017 @01:51AM (#15043894)

If these companies want to get serious about women in the workforce, they need to get serious about getting women in the pipeline --from childhood.

Not by making it seem special or different and accommodating.

Make it cool --make young girls as excited about working in STEM as they are about working in TV or Hollywood, being a Pharmacist or Lawyer.

Trying to fix things after that is not as productive and is more interventionist.

While saying that, don't dissuade boys from it. Just keep on trying to persuade girls more. Offer more classes to accommodate everyone interested.

I mean, if the soviets could mobilize their women to be top notch scientists by creating a pipeline from elementary school on, so can we.

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