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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]He's a rank and file nobody.  He probably thinks, "I've made it to Google! I'm the best of the best!" while he plays ping pong and rides the bus back to San Francisco to go sleep in a shared yurt.

Guys like this are the worst.  They're completely insecure now that they're among the best, and look around to see who they might put down to elevate themselves.  [/quote]

One of my friends is a woman who was an English major who took a few computer science courses and went from that to programming and running all sorts of IT systems. She's just plain smarter than most other people.

It seems to me that the Google engineer who started the current controversy was probably exaggerating the magnitude of sex-based differences, but that Google went overboard when it fired a guy who expressed a controversial opinion about this.

But I think the real issue is trying to figure out some way to make jobs like Google software engineer and new physician more compatible with making the daycare pickup deadline.

Whether women are, on average, worse at programming than men or not, many women are clearly capable of being great coders. But it's hard to combine working an 18-hour day and being the lead parent for a child.

Figuring out how to put a hard 12-hour cap on people's workdays might do a lot more to help get ahead than obsessing about sexism. [/quote]

I agree except can't you see the obvious? why should women be the "lead parent"? the fact is that many arguments about women not being "willing" to do time consuming jobs are premised on her husband's failure to be an equal partner. If highly motivated women could be serenely assured that their children were receiving excellent loving care by their other parent (and dinner and clean laundry magically appeared) then they would be free to shoot for the stars. High acheiving men very often have a sah. [/quote]

but what about women who WANT to be the lead parent?  I do.  It is more important to me than any other job I have ever held (and I've been an "executive") or could ever hold.  my husband is willing to and capable of doing all the parenting "stuff" but I want to be the one to spend as much time with my kids before they go off to college.

i think this might be the point google guy was trying to make -- woman have been "allowed" to break out of their norms, but men haven't.  until they do -- and by that i mean until it is ok for them to leave the office to get the kids on a regular basis (because they want to, not because the old ball and chain is out of town), we are going to be stuck in the same ruts.[/quote]

Well we won't really know until men step up to the plate, will we? [/quote]

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