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Re:The More Gender Equality, the Fewer Women in STEM (2018) by TulliusCicero on Friday December 13, 2019 @04:03AM (#21780157)
This is ridiculous, changes in the 60's led to a more gender balanced field, which obviously made for less sexism. Pretending that root causes don't matter isn't helping your case.
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Re:The More Gender Equality, the Fewer Women in STEM (2018) by foldr on Friday December 13, 2019 @04:17AM (#21780220)
Aren't you then acknowledging that as a result, tech now is more sexist than law and medicine?

If so, I can't see where we substantially disagree. As I've repeatedly said, I make no claims about why the gender balance shifted in law and medicine in the 60s. You appeared to suggest that this had nothing to do with levels of sexism. I'm skeptical of that claim (broader societal attitudes are important too, not just the sexism level of lawyers and doctors vs. the sexism level of scientists and engineers), but it's not as if either of us has actually researched this in detail.

The key point is that tech now is disproportionately sexist, as you appear to acknowledge.

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