Women in Tech
Discussions center on the underrepresentation of women in tech and programming roles, debating causes such as interest levels, discrimination, hiring standards, and efforts to achieve gender balance in companies.
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It isn't normal unfortunately. It's why there is a push for women in tech. There isn't a top company that is 50/50(i don't believe this has to be the case accross the board) but using it just feels disingenuous.Idk, i'm not a femal engineer. Maybe passport was predominently written by female engineers. If I was a minority in some arena,I suspect I would be slightly off put if they just pretended I wasn't
Your quote agrees with you. Women are underrepresented in tech compared to other industries.
Women are a minority of workers at most tech firms.
Women aren't a gender minority. > They are in tech.
Only 10 to 20% of programmers are women. Doesn't that justify the mention?
At almost every tech company, the applicant pool is mostly men. To get a 50/50 employee ratio, you'd have to vastly lower hiring standards for women. In most countries that's illegal (discrimination in hiring on the basis of sex), but even ignoring that, you'd be creating a work environment where the average woman was much less capable than the average man. Is that really what you want? (And likewise for universities.)
It's because less women than men want to be in tech.
There aren't many savy tech women compared to men. So it's not surprising they are mostly men.
Who says tech companies do better when there are more women?
75% of Bachelors degrees in Psychology are awarded to women, and almost 70% of active working Psychologists are female. Does it follow that Psychology is sexist against men?Is is possible that two things are true? That (1) there is sexism in tech that must be addressed, and (2) even if women felt welcome in tech, the composition of tech could be <50% women?