Why We Don’t Employ Female Developers

Re:Why We Don’t Employ Female Developers by driverdan on Monday March 12, 2018 @05:42PM (#16571933)

I'm not sure why you're being downvoted. If there are no women in your hiring pipeline then you're either not reaching women candidates or not an appealing place for them to work. You need to change something about your hiring process to get those candidates to apply.

That doesn't mean we shouldn't improve the other end of this as well, getting more women / girls into coding. Both are important.

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Re:Why We Don’t Employ Female Developers by alexandercrohde on Monday March 12, 2018 @05:45PM (#16571967)

I'm not a downvoter on that, but I'd imagine it's the tone that's getting dismissed out-of-hand, it sounds like it's implying there's some obligation.

You don't have to do anything (nor do you have to feel bad for using a normal hiring pipeline). You can choose to try to "fix" the gender-balance in tech thing [if you believe it's a problem], or not. There are millions of problems in the world, and it's up to you to pick and choose which ones you want to go out of your way to be proactive on.

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