Changing the Ratio of Women In Tech: How Etsy Did It 546
First time accepted submitter occidental writes in about Etsy's push to get more women engineers. "You’ve probably heard of Etsy, the bustling online marketplace for crafters and artists. You probably wouldn’t be surprised to learn that most of its customers are women, both buyers and sellers. Ditto that the Etsy team is a pretty good representation of the Earth’s gender ratio.
Yet when Marc Hedlund took the helm of Etsy’s Product Development & Engineering department, 97% of the engineering department were men. Hedlund realized that in his nearly two decades in IT, he’s hired no more than 20 women for engineering positions. This began to bother him. Especially after his daughter was born."
Re:Anti sexist policies are almost always sexist (Score:3, Informative)
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Re:It's to bad (Score:4, Informative)
There might actually be a biological reason. I was watching a documentary on the brain on NatGeo, and they brought up a study on chimps while discussing the general differences between the male and female brain. They gave chimps who had lived without human interaction some human toys. Even among chimps without our cultural influence, the males predominantly chose the trucks and the females predominantly chose the dolls.
This was like a decade ago so I don't know the significance of that study or if it has been debunked, but I always found it interesting.
Re:Anti sexist policies are almost always sexist (Score:5, Informative)
I shouldn't have to dig up an uncontroversial result from a decade and a half ago, but the classic study would be:
http://advance.cornell.edu/documents/ImpactofGender.pdf [cornell.edu]
Which of course is the first Google result for "study gender cv name". The remainder of the results will point you to several modern replications. Enjoy.
Re:Anti sexist policies are almost always sexist (Score:5, Informative)
If you're referring to that wage gap crap, it's been debunked time and time again.
In terms of education, more women are graduating than men.
Women have the advantage of affirmative action.
Women have the advantage of women only scholarships.
So where is the tilting of the scales for men in nursing, teaching and early child development?
Where are the employment campaigns for more women in dangerous or hard labor jobs?
Where is the outrage that women are only getting 60% of the jail terms men do for the same crimes?
Re:Anti sexist policies are almost always sexist (Score:4, Informative)
I'm sorry, but you;'re incorrect about the wage gap being debunked "time and time again." While the wage gap is not 70cents on the dollar anymore, there is a significant difference in women's pay. In Ontario, according to Stats Canada, the gap is currently 25% [gov.on.ca]. It's also the same in the US according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics [bls.gov], which is worse than it has been since 2005 [forbes.com].
I'm very sorry you feel discriminated against, but this supposed attack on male rights is horse shit made up by bitter people who cannot tolerate the fact that 1000 years of cultural manipulation by us white men is being undone.
The numbers of male nurses has increased incredibly in the last 30 years, and male nurses are currently making significantly more money than women [wsj.com], and are in higher positions. [nursingtimes.net]
There are massive campaigns to get more [google.com] men [dailymail.co.uk] involved [startribune.com] teaching, and early child development [childcarecanada.org]. There's also employment campaigns to get more women involved in trades, including the more dangerous ones, those campaigns are primarily ones which you complain about in your first paragraph (scholarships directed at women).