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Re:Leap: An Online Community for Women by _zachs on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @03:19PM (#16162017)
Note the lack of specifics. It's much easier to hold a viewpoint that can't be refuted if it's not measurable in the first place.
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Re:Leap: An Online Community for Women by metaphoracle on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @05:02PM (#16163130)
What specifics are you seeking? Have you read any of the linked articles in this thread? Or performed a single google search?

-Pay Gap: https://www.aauw.org/research/the-simple-truth-about-the-gen...

-Employment Gap: https://www.forbes.com/sites/christinawallace/2016/10/20/gir...

-Leadership Gap: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-02/why-so-fe...

-Visibility Gap: https://hbr.org/2016/09/to-succeed-in-tech-women-need-more-v...

-Sexism/Hostile Workplaces: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/04/why-is-...

-Hiring Discrimination: https://www.aauw.org/2015/06/11/john-or-jennifer/

-General Discrimination: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/11/20/the-tech-indus...

And just in case you missed it the last time: http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Timeline_of_incidents

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