IT female empowerment
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@wrx7m said in IT female empowerment:
If people find that there are issues with either gender being under-represented in certain careers, they can try to appeal to either gender in education, not by hiring someone just because of their gender.
And in a field where education often holds people back from the high end?
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@scottalanmiller said in IT female empowerment:
@wrx7m said in IT female empowerment:
If people find that there are issues with either gender being under-represented in certain careers, they can try to appeal to either gender in education, not by hiring someone just because of their gender.
And in a field where education often holds people back from the high end?
Which fields?
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@emad-r said in IT female empowerment:
I understand that in MENA region women are not getting fair treatment, especially in the street and walking aloneThat's a security problem that I don't think can be solved.
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But here where it gets tricky, I think in whole ML community we have like 1 female ? or maybe like less than 5.
So you never know if this makes sense or the right approach or not.
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@emad-r said in IT female empowerment:
But here where it gets tricks, I think in whole ML community we have like 1 female ? or maybe like less than 5.
So you never know if this makes sense or the right approach or not.
Yeah, and those that are here seem very skilled... just like if you'd look in a ballerina community, maybe you'll find less than 5 males, but I'm sure they'd also be skilled.
But I think still shows that the physical/chemical differences in male and female brains, plus the role society plays, shows why this is the trend, but not never the case.
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@scottalanmiller said in IT female empowerment:
@wrx7m said in IT female empowerment:
@scottalanmiller said in IT female empowerment:
@wrx7m said in IT female empowerment:
... their willingness to do it for the agreed upon wage.
One problem that some people have with this, is there is a belief that men are more aggressive with demanding higher pay and feel that society should regulate this to help women get paid more.
Even if that is true, that is a learned skill.
There are two schools of thought on that. One is that it is not a learned skill and intrinsic to genders. The second is that it is indeed a learned skill and one kept from women throughout their childhoods so that they are being discriminated against from birth and put in a position where, as adults, they are at a major disadvantage.
Catch is, "Gender" is a relatively new term with a rather vague definition. So, no real school of thought there as of yet IMNSHO.
Traditional "Sex" based on XX or XY is plenty studied with some of the longest longitudinal studies in history still ongoing providing a lot of data. Folks are getting fired for citing such.
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@scottalanmiller said in IT female empowerment:
Funny, I was literally just discussing this with one of my offices and they were surprised that the US didn't allow you to specify that.
Manilla is a capital with more females than males because of it (people want female call center operators).
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@scottalanmiller said in IT female empowerment:
@wrx7m said in IT female empowerment:
If people find that there are issues with either gender being under-represented in certain careers, they can try to appeal to either gender in education, not by hiring someone just because of their gender.
And in a field where education often holds people back from the high end?
A more interesting viewpoint on women in STEM on why certain countries have higher percentages.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/02/the-more-gender-equality-the-fewer-women-in-stem/553592/
