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Re:Silicon Valley Is Sneaking Models into This Year’s Holida... by nawitus on Thursday December 07, 2017 @03:17PM (#15873670)
What do you estimate is the gender ratio for software developers? And how can you expect every company to go over it? Surely it is not 50% or over. In addition, for every company that goes over the average (perhaps like yours), another company must go under the average.
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Re:Silicon Valley Is Sneaking Models into This Year’s Holida... by rad88 on Thursday December 07, 2017 @05:47PM (#15875113)
The number I think is important is not how many CS grads there are (no one on my team has a CS major) or how many software developers there are, it's how many people are interested in and capable of this job. I don't know what the "true" ratio is but I'm sure it is more than 16% of women which is where ardit anchored it.

It often comes back to this "pipeline" problem, but we need to think of our companies as being part of the pipeline. I don't have a CS degree -- I came out of college with a BA -- but I landed a firmware programming job, 2 jobs and 7 years later I am experience and "senior". If you're willing to train smart people, you can sideline the pipeline issue.

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