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Re:Women, Tech Conferences and the Bullshit Surrounding It by caseysoftware on Monday April 15, 2013 @04:22PM (#5554039)
And for the record, that doesn't mean I like the result. I just think we need to look at this as a systemic problem and address it as such.. not blame the people at the end.

For example, my undergradate engineering school adopted a bunch of Girl Scout troops to encourage and grow interest in STEM. It has taken years but female enrolment has increased by 50%.. and they're not just shuffling from other schools. They're growing the pool of qualified candidates.

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Re:Women, Tech Conferences and the Bullshit Surrounding It by erikpukinskis on Monday April 15, 2013 @07:22PM (#5555164)
Every single person making all those decisions (the encouragers, the skill builders, the aptitude developers, the educators, the inviters) are "people at the end". We're all the end of the line when they come across us. Your kindergarten teacher was the person at the end when you entered their classroom.

So I disagree with you. The blame does lie with "the people at the end".

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Re:Women, Tech Conferences and the Bullshit Surrounding It by davidp on Monday April 15, 2013 @08:04PM (#5555334)
You disagree that this is a systemic problem, while finding people to blame throughout the system...?
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