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Re:Google sponsors over $150k of grants for female programmers by cdurr on Tuesday December 10, 2013 @04:26AM (#6879754)
If you're a man, you're on your own because you obviously have privilege. Strong empowered wymyn need these grants because patriarchy. /s

Women complain about the glass ceiling but they also have the glass cellar which keeps them from going to the bottom. More men may be at the top but they also over-represent the bottom of society and no one talks about that.

What Google's doing here is a social engineering experiment. They don't just want equal opportunity, they want equal outcome. Because biological differences of the sexes don't real and every kid deserves a medal for participation. And people wonder why businesses are moving their manufacturing away from America.

Re:Google sponsors over $150k of grants for female programmers by icebraining on Tuesday December 10, 2013 @10:19AM (#6881145)
And people wonder why businesses are moving their manufacturing away from America

They aren't. Manufacturing in the US has been growing steadily since the 70s.