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Re:Furor on Claim Women's Choices Create Gender Gap in Comp Sci by horseLOGIC on Monday June 25, 2018 @08:33AM (#17391830)
That some person calls for the firing isn't the problem, but it's the faculties following through with it.

It's the infantilized "student customer" along with a long-standing infiltration of sectors of Academia with ideologically motivated staff that is enabling all that.

The majority of staff/students do not a agree with this, but there's a system of fear where you can ruin your career by being labeled racist/sexist (etc.) by one of these ignorant loudmouths.

We can't change this by calling for individuals to not act in a certain way, we need to dismantle this power structure inside (parts of) Academia. It starts with speaking up.

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Re:Furor on Claim Women's Choices Create Gender Gap in Comp Sci by Ntrails on Monday June 25, 2018 @08:50AM (#17391970)
idk, it reads as though the university has handled this pretty well so far? It certainly helps that the author has a verifiable track record of engaging and encouraging women in CS.
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Re:Furor on Claim Women's Choices Create Gender Gap in Comp Sci by horseLOGIC on Monday June 25, 2018 @10:49AM (#17392817)
I was making a general point, but even then you shouldn't need to have a "verifiable track record" just to say something mildly controversial without getting fired.
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