Not even nursing?

That anecdote is still relevant. And in terms of the IT industry in Canada, women are just as if not more underrepresented than in the US.

The fact nobody has decided to actually engage me in a thoughtful discussion regarding my question probably confirms some animals are more equal than others haha.

Whoa there buddy. We’re not interested in what he SAID, we’re interested in what we’re READING INTO what he said! Can’t you project your hate properly?

Basically extreme societal pressure to conform to some kind of popular groupthink ideal.

Much of what he proposes is simply ways Googlers can discuss this issue better. He also proposes ways to increase diversity. Yes he seems to take issue with classes and programs that are only open to people of certain races or genders. If you see that as anti-diversity then I can see how you would see him as being…

Absolutely agree.

The best jobs is absolutely opinion. That wasn’t the focus of my post though. 71% of government jobs and women are still designated for preferential hiring. That’s the main point. What would happen if men tried starting this tech disparity conversation towards those government jobs?

I thought he had some valid points and was yelled at for uttering as such...

“A Google engineer was fired yesterday after he wrote a memo arguing that women are biologically less suited for software engineering jobs compared to men and that Google’s diversity efforts are misguided.”

Depends what your criteria are for defining “top of the social order”. Men are much more likely to go to jail, much more likely to be homeless, suffer from mental health issues and addiction, much more likely to be victims of violent crime, much more likely to be injured or killed on the job, much more likely to be…

So your argument is that woman were encouraged to do jobs that men weren’t around to do out of necessity and that’s the same? No one says they can’t work in a mill, they don’t want to.

Did you actually read it? He actually suggested several ways the company could reduce the gender gap without resorting to discrimination. How exactly is that trying to keep “men’s status at the top of the social order”? if that is even a real thing...

“Women can’t do math” is not an “alternative viewpoint.”

Well you got me there.

You are correct. Rae’s arguments do need some better support.

Nah, because most of the recent science just says Asians are the best. If white folks were doing bunk science, we’d obviously make ourselves the top rung.

I’ll take this whole thing seriously when women demand equality in farming, steel working, garbage collection, mining, roofing and construction, fishing and logging, etc., rather than the high-pay, air conditioned office jobs.

An extreme lack of people who have actually read the text here. Either you are full-fledged ideologs who won’t accept another viewpoint than your own, or you actually think that any critique against social constructionism is automatically sexist. I don’t know which is scarier.

To point out that women and men in general…

This whole argument is a bunch of confirmation bias, selective interpretation of studies, and complete obliviousness to the concept of confounding variables.