| > Passionate and skilled women in tech certainly exist, they are just relatively rare. exactly. I dont agree with you that women have "never been" discriminated against, but I do agree that vocational fields are not homogeneously populated (and that is not the result of discrimination). * I dont see very many women police officers * (this was mentioned on HN last week) not very many oil-rig workers are women * I dont see many heterosexual men working as hair dressers
or bridal shop/wedding planners/fashion designers/makeup artists ("this is clearly a glass door organized by the Gay Male Establishment to prevent heterosexual men from breaking into this field. Such abuse of privilege" /s). * I don't see many women working as bouncers at night clubs * I don't see many women working as commercial pilots. But you know, for all the "I don't see"'s , when I do see one that defies the norm, I dont think much of it. They're people just like anyone else, free to pursue whatever they want. But it's not automatically discrimination when groups of people gravitate to certain fields. |