[peterwwillis]

I get that people like this have noble intentions. But this obsession with hiring women... it's gotten out of hand. You see an imbalance of one sub-group of people in your field and you want to fix it. But you don't understand what the problem is.

The problem is that women aren't getting paid enough. The problem is that women get treated with less respect, or are given busy-work, aren't given the same opportunities. The problem is sexual harassment. The problem is a lack of sensitivity. The problem is the boys' club. Etc, etc, etc.

NONE of those problems get solved because you hired a woman. Once they get the job, they still face all of the same hurdles the rest of their career, because you didn't do anything to fix the cultural disparity which is (one of the) reasons why there aren't more women in the field to begin with.

I mean... do you seriously think that the only reason there aren't more women in tech is because nobody offered them the job? There is no secret nation-wide cabal of hiring managers excluding women from positions. They're just not applying. Dealing with the reasons for that would be a lot more productive than wandering around college campuses with a quadrocopter looking for girls.