Lemme ask you this. All things equal, as in all social pressures aside, would developers be 50/50 men and women? Serious question
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I have no idea what the answer to this question, but we're so far away from this hypothetical that it serves little purpose.
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I have, in my personal career, repeatedly seen pressures and discriminatory effects push women away from programming.
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I've also seen women pushed away from Director+ "operations" roles, where even "biological diff" people will admit they excel.
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For an allegedly evidence-focused group, where's the peer reviewed science that female brains are less good at programming?
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And as others have said, there are a lot of skills that go into programming. A lack of diversity leads to skill imbalanced teams.
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And finally, if you believe there is any sense in which women are underrepresented in tech, it makes BUSINESS sense for a company to fix.
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Because it means that there are cases where men (and other overrepresented groups) are getting hired over more qualified women.
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