When you argue for perhaps more women in tech and the consensus response is that gender doesn't matter. Something is definitely wrong with the culture.
The replies to this were... something. Thanks dudes, you've fully convinced me that this field isn't toxic one bit, and that toxicity has absolutely nothing to do with the gender ratio, which definitely doesn't need to be improved, not at all. Brilliant demonstration by example.https://twitter.com/fchollet/status/1065377414857973761 …
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The only thing I disagree with your theory is that it pertains to scientific sub-communities, it's FAR more generalizable than that (speaking from my experience in finance and sports)
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There were some decent comments; although mostly from the women.
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Shouldn’t it be « the more imbalanced, the more toxic » ? It seems true.
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Well yes, but when it comes to tech the imbalance goes only one way (which might not be entirely unrelated to the sort of attitudes that were on display in that thread)
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Thank you anyway. Nothing makes the worst of them squirm like awareness and support from other men.
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The tech world needs to realize they can actually learn a lot from the social sciences. https://hbr.org/2016/11/why-diverse-teams-are-smarter …
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I dunno, man, all those "THAT IS JUST A HYPOTHESIS, YOU MUST HAVE DATA" dudes might be on to something.
Does that mean we can start aiming at a 50/50 split in tech roles? Y'know, for science? ;) -
Based on dudes protestations, sounds like “science“ demands a complete reversal—make tech dominated by women, paid more, etc—and see if “toxicity” remains “unchanged”. They’re on board, let’s start Monday? (To be fair, we’d have to do it on a national level, across disciplines.)pic.twitter.com/Gj5DORdaHr
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