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Re:2,445 IBM Employees Openly Condemned IBM for Enabling Rac... by asutekku on Thursday August 20, 2020 @09:55AM (#24223234)
There's zero reason why in computer science and tech women and men should have so drastically different ratios. Even back in the day programming was seen as a women's job.
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Re:2,445 IBM Employees Openly Condemned IBM for Enabling Rac... by bluedevil2k on Thursday August 20, 2020 @10:12AM (#24223427)
Zero reason?? More opportunity in other traditionally male jobs like doctors, nurse pay has increased, tech jobs require longer hours than they used to, the opening of various CS-parallel fields like UX/UI design that don't count as computer science, more economic freedom for top earning families to not require 2 incomes. There are literally dozens of reasons why women's interest in CS might decrease.

* - https://www.payscale.com/compensation-today/2020/05/for-nati...

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Re:2,445 IBM Employees Openly Condemned IBM for Enabling Rac... by TeaDrunk on Thursday August 20, 2020 @10:23AM (#24223569)
> more economic freedom for top earning families to not require 2 incomes

Isn't this not actually true? More families are unable to avoid needing two incomes.

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Re:2,445 IBM Employees Openly Condemned IBM for Enabling Rac... by pm90 on Thursday August 27, 2020 @06:14AM (#24292034)
Nah. Do you know nurses? Their hours are pretty damn long and much more stressful. So longer hours does not sound like a valid reason why someone would choose one profession over another.
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Re:2,445 IBM Employees Openly Condemned IBM for Enabling Rac... by Wolfenstein98k on Thursday August 20, 2020 @10:10AM (#24223409)
What ratio "should" they have then? What is the right ratio based on non-social causes, from which any deviation is evidence of bias or cultural sexism?
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