personally i am fascinated when i myself receive "diversity hire"-type comments because in nearly all respects i am a perfectly generic east asian software engineer with a wealthy & highly educated family background and degrees from a "top cs school"
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and at least in my experience the gender ratio in industry is categorically worse than in school, so it's not like companies have run out of qualified female candidates and are just trying to pump up the numbers
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overall the point i am making is it takes a lot of bad logic to believe that women in tech, esp credentialed white/asian women, are getting hired despite being underqualified, and it's a shame that dudes who supposedly think critically for a living don't understand this
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there’s a lot more to be said on the validity of credential systems, the ways gender intersects with race and and income and class, the bigger goals of diversity and inclusion and equity. but tn i just want to point out some dumb ass dude thinking
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