stephanie

the only differentiator is gender. but it's a pretty inane twist of logic to trust the perfectly generic credentials of my male peers and imagine that somehow all of My perfectly generic credentials have been for my entire life the result of "lowering the bar"

in high school a boy told me i got into MIT because i was a girl. there are many reasons why i think i got in but idk maybe one of them was that i took calculus when i was 13 and he did not

gender is an interesting piece of diversity bc it's one of the least tied to large socioeconomic forces. race and income are more linked to structural inequities in education and job opportunity but the main thing preventing girls from doing what they want is men being assholes

which just makes it extra stupid whenever some dude is like "she got hired bc gender". in sv tech, most entry level women have literally the same schooling & experience as entry level men. they're just as interested & qualified but have to deal w so much more bullshit

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

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

phrased this poorly — don’t mean that non-w/a women are any more likely to be underqualified but that given that most w/a women in tech have identical backgrounds to w/a men, it’s extra dumb that said men still can’t wrap their heads around the idea of qualified women

This is still very poor analysis. You really believe Black, Latinx and Indigenous women engineers do not share the same credentials as white and Asian women? I urge you to actually speak to women from these groups. It seems you don’t know much about our experiences.