Re:The More Gender Equality, the Fewer Women in STEM
by haberman on Monday February 19, 2018 @11:05AM
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No one is arguing to rule it out entirely. Not even James Damore.
The question is: how do we measure the problem of discrimination? Many people assume that we can measure discrimination by looking at the percentage of women in engineering and comparing it to the percentage of women in the general population. Many people believe that any difference between these numbers proves discrimination. But an increasing amount of evidence suggests that this a bad assumption.
The question is: how do we measure the problem of discrimination? Many people assume that we can measure discrimination by looking at the percentage of women in engineering and comparing it to the percentage of women in the general population. Many people believe that any difference between these numbers proves discrimination. But an increasing amount of evidence suggests that this a bad assumption.