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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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