James's claim was that personality differences made women less interested in tech than men were. It had nothing to do with ability.pic.twitter.com/q54uAROP5u
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James's claim was that personality differences made women less interested in tech than men were. It had nothing to do with ability.pic.twitter.com/q54uAROP5u
Ah yes biological "personality differences" right no it was worse than I remember
You think that the scientific fact that there are personality differences between men and women that make them interested in different things is irrelevant?
I think the differences exist because of socialization and not anything biological. There's social stigma against girls going into male dominated fields and encouraging more women to apply slightly alleviates it. It's not reverse-sexist to try to lower the barrier against women.
It is absolutely sexist to just shrug your shoulders and go "this is just what women are like lmao"
Actually it is sexist to say that the reason that so few women are in tech is because they are inferior at it. It is anti-sexist to say that there are so few women in tech because they are less interested in it. Lowering the barrier for women seems to say that they are inferior.
Lowering the barrier to the level men have it isn't saying they're inferior? What are you smoking
The barrier in companies like Google is lower than what it is for men. That is what James's memo was all about. Preferentially hiring women to meet a quota rather than hiring the best person (male or female) for the job.
Curious that the "best person for the job" just happens to be men so much more often than women. That's what orchestras said too before they started using blind auditionshttp://gap.hks.harvard.edu/orchestrating-impartiality-impact-%E2%80%9Cblind%E2%80%9D-auditions-female-musicians …
Well it also happens that the best person for the job also happens to be women when its nursing or psychology. Women have more “tact” than men (probably because they talk about their emotions their entire life, meanwhile men have to “man it up”)
And that's what we call A PROBLEM The fact that men are expected to bottle their emotions is a very bad thing! Why are we not allowed to talk about it and have to pretend this kind of situation is fine?
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