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Re:The More Gender Equality, the Fewer Women in STEM (2018) by TulliusCicero on Thursday December 12, 2019 @04:10PM (#21776512)
So you're suggesting the lawyers and doctors in charge back in the 60's and 70's were more progressive and less sexist than engineers in 2019? Really? That's what you're going with?
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Re:The More Gender Equality, the Fewer Women in STEM (2018) by foldr on Thursday December 12, 2019 @04:13PM (#21776541)
No? Where do I say that?
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Re:The More Gender Equality, the Fewer Women in STEM (2018) by bosie on Thursday December 12, 2019 @04:27PM (#21776685)
TulliusCicero is saying that the 60s and 70s were the period when women entered those fields en masse. Hence you should compare the state of those fields in the 60s/70s to the CS field now if you wanna determine sexism as the cause of entering/not-entering a given field.
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Re:The More Gender Equality, the Fewer Women in STEM (2018) by TulliusCicero on Thursday December 12, 2019 @04:18PM (#21776597)
It's implied by saying that those other fields made serious efforts to combat sexism back then, but CS hasn't made an equivalent effort now. What other reason would there be for such a discrepancy, other than being motivated by sexism?
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Re:The More Gender Equality, the Fewer Women in STEM (2018) by foldr on Thursday December 12, 2019 @04:23PM (#21776641)
You've made this point elsewhere in the thread, but it doesn't really make any sense. See the responses to your other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21775710
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