[beatpanda]

Why is your first response to get defensive about the tech industry and not to respond to the problem in the post? If its a problem everywhere, fine -- we have a chance to make it less of a problem in the tech industry than everywhere else. Wouldn't that be something?

[ashwinaj]

I'm not defending anyone, my point is that this is a societal problem. How do you propose to change people's thinking? People in the our (tech) industry fight over coding standards, programming languages, frameworks etc.; good luck changing their outdated views on something that's been ingrained for years.