This contradicts the claim that women are underrepresented in programming b/c of different preferences (people vs things) on average, no?
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If we posit that those perspectives differ, & technology is used by both, there is a commonsense advantage to having both at the table.
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The problem is that security and much of tech is dominated by high systematizing low empathizing individuals, which is suboptimal. As such
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it might make sense to try and recruit for more empathetic individuals. One quick and dirty way to do that is affirmative action for women.
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Similar arguments apply to engineering and soft sciences as well. It's not PC to say that we need more women in STEM b/c they are on average
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more empathetic and high tech stuff is driving more and more of how society functions, but it's a real problem.
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