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Re:How Women Got Crowded Out of the Computing Revolution by cmiles74 on Sunday August 20, 2017 @11:29AM (#15058791)
I don't think it's a stretch to imagine the socially awkward men you've met in the field aging into slightly less socially awkward older men tasked with hiring new developers. When hiring, it seems a small logical jump that they will higher more people like themselves (socially awkward men) and avoid people who differ. It's a pretty commonplace dynamic and an easy trip to fall into.

What surprises me is how hard people are resisting recognizing this dynamic, and insisting the current state is somehow the "natural state".

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Re:How Women Got Crowded Out of the Computing Revolution by mmsimanga on Sunday August 20, 2017 @11:42AM (#15058849)
I have not citation but from the recent articles on HN, is the problem not that they are not enough female CS graduates to hire from? The crowding out is happening in high school and college.
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Re:How Women Got Crowded Out of the Computing Revolution by k__ on Sunday August 20, 2017 @11:47AM (#15058875)
"insisting the current state is somehow the "natural state""

This is a strawman, nobody assumes this is natural in any way.

The point is, yes we want more women in the field, but the awkward male nerds that are there right now aren't the main problem.

Better look at the hiring managers and what society "shows" women every day.

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Re:How Women Got Crowded Out of the Computing Revolution by cmiles74 on Sunday August 20, 2017 @12:31PM (#15059050)
Damore's argument was that the current state was because "biology".
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Re:How Women Got Crowded Out of the Computing Revolution by sanxiyn on Sunday August 20, 2017 @12:41PM (#15059092)
Nope, the argument was that the current state was caused by both social and biological effect, and that it is harmful to insist that the cause is entirely, or mostly social. Honestly we don't really know how large are contributions from social and biological effect.
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