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Re:Etsy Wants to Give Female Programmers $5,000 to Attend Ha... by timtamboy63 on Saturday April 07, 2012 @05:31AM (#3810441)
The difference is that rich white guys wouldn't need the scholarship, whereas poorer males would. Etsy is discriminating against males. I do agree that there needs to be more diversity in this industry, but I'm quite shocked at how Etsy is doing it - what makes the women chosen any better than the males who could have been chosen?
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Re:Etsy Wants to Give Female Programmers $5,000 to Attend Ha... by GiraffeNecktie on Saturday April 07, 2012 @10:14AM (#3810917)
" what makes the women chosen any better than the males who could have been chosen?"

Nothing makes them better, nothing makes them worse. The point is not to find people who are "better" but merely to fill a gap in the workforce (diversity). You can't get more diversity by hiring more of the same.

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Re:Etsy Wants to Give Female Programmers $5,000 to Attend Ha... by michaelcampbell on Saturday April 07, 2012 @03:48PM (#3811917)
If they're not better, why incent them to be hired at the expense of others? Or is the argument that diversity is better just because it is?
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Re:Etsy Wants to Give Female Programmers $5,000 to Attend Ha... by GiraffeNecktie on Sunday April 08, 2012 @08:42AM (#3813705)
Yes. Actually that's exactly it. Diversity is good for the workplace, good for the community, and good for the bottom line.
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Re:Etsy Wants to Give Female Programmers $5,000 to Attend Ha... by michaelcampbell on Friday April 13, 2012 @12:31PM (#3837522)
I'm not disputing that, because I have no data to back up a dispute. Is there data on the positive side?
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