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Re:The More Gender Equality, the Fewer Women in STEM (2018) by speedplane on Saturday December 14, 2019 @04:07AM (#21788568)
> GP's example didn't say anything about bosses, but rather all-male teams vs teams with >0 women. Your comment is just an extended non sequitur

It doesn't matter if it's bosses or co-workers, the math works out the same.

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Re:The More Gender Equality, the Fewer Women in STEM (2018) by wutbrodo on Saturday December 14, 2019 @10:41PM (#21794304)
No, it doesn't. It would require all-male teams to be substantially more common than teams with 1 or more women. It's not clear to me that this is the case (it's very much not my experience: 1/6 teams I've worked on have been women-free).
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Re:The More Gender Equality, the Fewer Women in STEM (2018) by speedplane on Saturday December 14, 2019 @11:22PM (#21794433)
> 1/6 teams I've worked on have been women-free

If your average team size is 5 people, then on average, the gender breakdown in your company is 72% male/28% female. I assumed 80/20, so yeah, it's still pretty accurate.

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