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by SkyMarshal 4882 days ago
Tech/IT is already starved for qualified employees, and the 'Startup Visa', even if it is signed into law anytime soon won't completely solve that.

In the US, more degree earners are women now than men, so that is one large untapped talent pool for the tech industry. We ignore it to our detriment.
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B-Con 4882 days ago
> In the US, more degree earners are women now than men,

Not in STEM, which constitutes the vast majority of the degrees relevant to Tech/IT.

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SkyMarshal 4882 days ago
Probably another symptom of the same problem, and all the more reason to fix it. We not only want more women in web development, but all of STEM in general. There's no biological reason why there shouldn't be a roughly equal proportion of women in STEM, just social anachronisms.
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B-Con 4882 days ago
> There's no biological reason why there shouldn't be a roughly equal proportion of women in STEM, just social anachronisms.

That's an assumption. We don't know. :-)

I don't know that future neuroscience is going agree with that statement. The male and female brain do differ on average, and it would seem that these differences may be related to the types of thinking that STEM encourages. Math maybe not so much, but engineering? Maybe. We don't know for sure yet. A lot of people love to think that there's no difference between men an women, but science chips away at that idealism every decade.

But there's no reason to treat men or women any differently with regards to STEM, true. We just have to remember that there may be some base-level biological self-filtering that happens. And if it does, that's OK.

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