Re:Six women computer scientists respond to why women don’t ...
by blihp on Thursday September 27, 2018 @01:31PM
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It won't provide a complete picture, only the picture of the common obstacles that were insufficient to stop them. Read the article and count how many things that you can say 'as a man, I never had to face this and would have considered it inappropriate had it happened to me'. To me those are candidates for obvious obstacles to try to clear. They are the sorts of things that numerous women probably were deterred by.
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Re:Six women computer scientists respond to why women don’t ...
by naasking on Thursday September 27, 2018 @04:40PM
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> To me those are candidates for obvious obstacles to try to clear. They are the sorts of things that numerous women probably were deterred by.
I'm skeptical of this sort of claim. The sexism barriers in medicine and law were much higher, yet women persevered and achieved gender parity despite them. I don't think women are so easily deterred as you seem to imply.
That said, of course it's still worthwhile to eliminate overt sexism of the sorts described in the article, but I don't think for a second it will change the gender ratios by very much. The sort of sexism described is unfortunately everywhere.