Changing the Ratio of Women In Tech: How Etsy Did It

First time accepted submitter occidental writes in about Etsy's push to get more women engineers. "You’ve probably heard of Etsy, the bustling online marketplace for crafters and artists. You probably wouldn’t be surprised to learn that most of its customers are women, both buyers and sellers. Ditto that the Etsy team is a pretty good representation of the Earth’s gender ratio. Yet when Marc Hedlund took the helm of Etsy’s Product Development & Engineering department, 97% of the engineering department were men. Hedlund realized that in his nearly two decades in IT, he’s hired no more than 20 women for engineering positions. This began to bother him. Especially after his daughter was born."

Comments

Re:It's to bad

[Murdoch5]

ya what woman would want someone who supports women in engineering! I know right, unthinkable, ass.

Re:Headline

[drinkypoo]

I think the headline should read:

Changing the ratio of women to men in tech How they did it.

Is that because you think a reasonable person would otherwise assume that the ratio is women to cheeseburgers or women to solar flares or women to rutabagas?

Re:I'd love to see more women in tech, but...

[nine-times]

what I see reported as the biggest turn-off to most women is the perception that tech work, computer science in particular, is "geeky"

Sounds like the problem is that women are too smart to work in tech.

Re:Anti sexist policies are almost always sexist

[somersault]

So you pick one because of some subconscious factor, which you're probably not aware of

Like you're ever unaware of the cleavage.

Re:Anti sexist policies are almost always sexist

[Lemmeoutada Collecti]

Wait? Are you telling me that females are supposed to be the ones with the cleavage in IT?

Re:Anti sexist policies are almost always sexist

[aardvarkjoe]

It is also fair to introduce some bias...

Are you reading what you're typing?