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Re:Even in Denmark, children are career killers for working ... by patall on Monday February 05, 2018 @03:38PM (#16311934)
From working in that field, I can tell you this is not true. There are lots of women in biology but in computational biology its more like one in three (and often much less). In the algorithmic and tool developmental parts even more so. It may be more equal than in pure CS but still the imbalance is huge.
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Re:Even in Denmark, children are career killers for working ... by stcredzero on Monday February 05, 2018 @03:51PM (#16312057)
The YouTube CEO claims that the CS graduation rate for women in the US is around 40%.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrOp8ewzJDc

So a hiring rate of 40% would indicate a level playing field in hiring. 33/40 is around 82%. The doubling down policies of "The (metaphoric) beatings will continue until equality is achieved," would seem to be misplaced at the workplace level. If there is systemic bias, it would seem to exist at the educational level.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIRvtA2JIIA

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Re:Even in Denmark, children are career killers for working ... by pcwalton on Monday February 05, 2018 @04:40PM (#16312476)
Regardless, the point of mentioning how much CS is in biology is to dispel the silly idea that biology is somehow less intellectually demanding than CS as practiced in industry.
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