women in tech industry
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- youngdesigner
I was surprised to read this...
In the United States, the number of women represented in undergraduate computer science education and the white-collar information technology workforce peaked in the mid-1980s, and has declined ever since. In 1984, 37.1% of Computer Science degrees were awarded to women; the percentage dropped to 29.9% in 1989-1990, and 26.7% in 1997-1998.[2]
Figures from the Computing Research Association Taulbee Survey indicate that less than 12% of Computer Science bachelor's degrees were awarded to women at US PhD-granting institutions in 2010-11.[3]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wom…
In spite of the womens movement more and more of these jobs are going to men.
- pinkfloyd0
I wouldn't correlate women's movement and tech jobs. I'm guessing they're just not into tech as much as say marketing.
- monNom0
You should see the appalling gender inequality in the field of nursing.
- yurimon0
Women do fine in the labor market. no worries.
- hereswhatidid0
Is the purpose of the women's movement simply to get jobs traditionally held by men?
- No purpose of womens movement was to get women to labor force because 1/2 of population wasnt paying taxesyurimon
- and breaking up the family is good for ruling class so kids spend more time in institutional indoctrination from younger ageyurimon
- socialist ideology me amigosyurimon
- sweet jesus you're a nutburger, yurihereswhatidid
- socialist...you use that word, I don't think you know what it meansukit2
- Socialism was a means to an end if you read the works of its founders.yurimon
- research it my friends. how you are socially engineered..yurimon
- more details please, link?pinkfloyd
- I actually agree with yuri for once.********
- Call him a nutburger for pointing that out and you really are in trouble...********
- So you are saying the entire women's movement is a scam to collect more tax money?hereswhatidid
- Suffrage, equal pay, equal rights, all just a tax scam? Yep, nutburger territory for sure.hereswhatidid
- That's not what he said. Don't over-generalise to defend your misunderstandings.********
- That's what nutters do.********
- So what was he saying then? How can you interpret that as anything other than saying the entire women's movement is a scam?hereswhatidid
- scam to collect more taxes?hereswhatidid
- Are you incapable of understanding the difference between an initial driving force....********
- and then everything else that happened thereafter? It's really rather a basic concept.********
- fucking nutburger.********
- so what part is the driving force and what part is the "happened after"?hereswhatidid
- nothing in what he wrote makes a distinction there. you're just filling in the blanks with your own interpretationhereswhatidid
- "purpose of womens movement was to get women to labor force because 1/2 of population wasnt paying taxes"ukit2
- There are records that show government actually targeted womens groups as part of COINTELPRO because it viewed them as subversiveukit2
- viewed them as subversiveukit2
- he's literally saying that the women's movement was to get chicks to pay taxes, go back and read...zarkonite
- <---hereswhatidid
- doesnotexist0
because they're in the creative industry. anything fashion related—all females.
- prophetone0
couldn't this decline just boil down to general tech (dis)interest? and maybe those gender roles creep in despite all the support to the contrary.
the wiki article above seems a tad ridiculous to me. re: attracting women to tech: "...as well as educational programs targeting women"
why does that even exist as a concept? you either wanna hack the planet or you do not. wtf does gender targetting have to do with it?
it's like math or science imo. if you wanna dance with css3/html5, great, just do it. u wanna be a security expert, get in there. put in the hard work. get interested. be curious.
when you're a godamn male/female ninja you can get the job but being a ninja nowadays requires extra nerd tendencies and interest as opposed to the 'easy' 80s / 90s imo. maybe that's where gender role thing is creeping in? i dunno.
- ********0
How many women were doctors or lawyers 50 years ago, 1%?
- ********0
- pinkfloyd0
I support more lesbian designers
- pango0
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women…
"The 10 jobs men don't trust women (or men) to do: From a male nanny to a female bus driver"
- mekk0
Yahoo's Marissa Mayer:
Hot!
- animatedgif0
How can an area where you can have a career without even meeting face to face or speaking on the phone be anything other than inclusive.
- robotinc0
brogramers
- ********0
- dbloc0
see chick of the day thread
- Llyod0
I didn't want to fuck most of the women I've worked with so I don't know what the problem is.
