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Re:Career advice nobody gave me: Never ignore a recruiter by thaumasiotes on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @03:56PM (#30169137)
> It's not just software that is dominated by white men. Law, medicine, construction, management at corporations. Not just white men.

By what metric is software dominated by white men? Are we counting Indians as white?

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Re:Career advice nobody gave me: Never ignore a recruiter by TameAntelope on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @04:01PM (#30169196)
https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2021/04/01/stem-jobs-see...
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Re:Career advice nobody gave me: Never ignore a recruiter by thaumasiotes on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @04:05PM (#30169245)
That would seem to indicate that 54% of "software developers" are white.
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Re:Career advice nobody gave me: Never ignore a recruiter by TameAntelope on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @04:10PM (#30169319)
Yeah, that sounds about right. Over half.
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Re:Career advice nobody gave me: Never ignore a recruiter by thaumasiotes on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @05:56PM (#30170804)
If 10% of white software developers are women, that's not over half.

But assuming 100% of white software developers are men, 54% is still not within the normal range of the word "dominated".

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Re:Career advice nobody gave me: Never ignore a recruiter by Izkata on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @01:30AM (#30174483)
You know that's under-represented for the US's population, right?
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