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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Megan McArdle's excellent article on the whole situation:

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-08-09/as-a-woman-in-tech-i-realized-these-are-not-my-people

"No, the reason I left is that I came into work one Monday morning and joined the guys at our work table, and one of them said “What did you do this weekend?”

I was in the throes of a brief, doomed romance. I had attended a concert that Saturday night. I answered the question with an account of both. The guys stared blankly. Then silence. Then one of them said: “I built a fiber-channel network in my basement,” and our co-workers fell all over themselves asking him to describe every step in loving detail.

At that moment I realized that fundamentally, these are not my people. I liked the work. But I was never going to like it enough to blow a weekend doing more of it for free. Which meant that I was never going to be as good at that job as the guys around me."

"These preferences show up across cultures, and indeed, the less sexist a society is overall, the more you seem to see women splitting off into fields that emphasize people, and words, and caring. '

In rich countries, women are not going to want to do boring jobs.

they want to do fun jobs taht still pay decently. [/quote]

Again, there is a difference between 1) it's true that we are probably unlikely as a society to get to 50/50 representation of men and women in all fields, and 2) we as a society should expect that individual women that DO want to do these jobs should not be pre-emptively excluded. It follows that in fields that are dominated by men, it will likely require formal efforts to ensure that the cumulative effects of conscious and unconscious biases are not keeping them out. [/quote]

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