Re:I understood gender discrimination once I added “Mr.” to ...
by acjohnson55 on Saturday July 13, 2013 @12:16AM
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That's fine to first approximation, but doesn't hold up in the real world, where women have the deck stacked against them in the tech world at every turn. If men are being preferentially chosen over women, then that damages the ability of women to be competitive at the next level.
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Re:I understood gender discrimination once I added “Mr.” to ...
by gohrt on Saturday July 13, 2013 @12:47AM
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The fix for that is to work from the bottom up, not by intentionally ruining a bsiness by hiring less effective people at the time.
Note that "women aren't represented in the executive levels" isn't a significant issue, not for the vast majority of women or men. Very few people are executives, and it's not important to 95% of the population what the gender of the executives is. The majority of women have more in common with the majority of men that are non-executives, than they do with the few women that are executives.