[gowld]

50:50 is not going to happen as long as there are cultural and also indisputable biological biases toward women being child-rearers, but getting from 90:10 to 80:20 or 70:30 would relieve a lot of the pressures of minority -- diffusing harassment, reducing loneliness, and the like.

[saas_co_de]

> 50:50 is not going to happen

It is just a matter of choice. If companies make it a priority they can do it.

I don't think companies should ever hire someone based on anything other than their qualifications for the job so of course the actual distribution should vary from company to company but if it is 60:40 m/f at one company then it should be 40:60 m/f at another (SHOCKING CRAZY IDEA) and the average should come out somewhere near the middle..

[mkeedlinger]

This is assuming, however, that the work force has an equal number of women and men. Some women choose to and want to be stay-at-home moms. Should we try to persuade them otherwise?

[mantas]

Isn't that's what the modern culture is trying to do for the past few decades?

[saas_co_de]

The US DOL says that 47% of the labor force is female and there is a significant gap in educational attainment between women and men in younger cohorts so the available pool of college educated women under 30-35 probably exceeds men.

https://blog.dol.gov/2017/03/01/12-stats-about-working-women https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publicatio...