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by panda88888 2864 days ago
Have all 15 male engineers is not THAT improbable. Assumed 80% male applicant, each hiring is independent event of others, and equal chance of hiring for both gender, it comes out to 3.5%. Or 1 out of every 30 companies with 15 engineers to have all male teams.
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Well that's a different way of saying a similar thing.

In that case you're assuming that 80% of engineers should be male - which is a different argument than what was put forward.

The 80% assumption is based on historical gender ratio of CS degree earned. Quick Googling shows historical percent at roughly 18% CS degree earned by women in 2014.

http://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/cracking-the-code:-why-aren...

https://www.computerscience.org/resources/women-in-computer-...

https://www.usnews.com/news/data-mine/articles/2016-10-20/st...