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Re:Women: Learn to Program This Summer by Udik on Saturday March 23, 2019 @03:55AM (#19469501)
> These are behaviors that are ingrained for most white men but tend to be less ingrained for women and non-white men

Do you have any reputable sources for this?

Re:Women: Learn to Program This Summer by satokema on Saturday March 23, 2019 @12:09PM (#19470999)
Of course not.

Look, I get it, people turn you down for jobs all the time. I am a white male, and I HATE looking for a job in my non-mainstream market, because I am constantly passed over for being a generalist/introvert/socially awkward/you-name-my-worst-social-traits-and-recruiters-and-hiring-staff-hate-it. When I get my foot in the actual door, my bosses always LOVE my work.

If I wasn't a, you know, a non-protected demographic, I could just hop on the internet and whine about how these strangers are discriminating against me for my [protected status] and that we need to fix years of bias, when it's really that they binned my resume for being too weird, too non-specialized, too X for their tastes.

The basic problem here is that there are too many confounders in why a particular individual is denied a particular position, and it's way too easy to cry "X-ism!" instead of actually breaking down the hiring process into actionable feedback for everyone.