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by lj3 3351 days ago
> That is an ostensible reason. Another is to correct the inequality caused by societal pressures discouraging women from pursuing careers in tech.

Where's the social movement to correct the inequality caused by societal pressures discouraging women from pursuing careers as coal miners? That's a male dominated field that is surprisingly lucrative.

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> Where's the social movement to correct the inequality caused by societal pressures discouraging women from pursuing careers as coal miners?

Did you search? Because it's the first fucking hit on any search engine: https://www.womeninmining.org.uk/

Here's a comment from 2 years ago on HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9227796

In the US?
So this sort of thing for women in tech isn't going too far if a similar thing is happening to coal miners very specifically in the US? Where was this going?