Tech Jobs and Apple: Every Bit As "Fun" As Pleasure Island?

theodp writes: On the eve of Apple's big Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple CEO Tim Cook said the lack of diversity in tech is 'our fault' — 'our' meaning the whole tech community. "I think in general we haven't done enough to reach out and show young women that it's cool to do it [tech] and how much fun it can be," Cook explained. Indeed, the WWDC scholarship winners shooting selfies with Cook at the San Francisco Four Seasons to celebrate their iPhone apps and other WWDC attendees looked to be having as much fun as, well, Pinocchio at Pleasure Island. But, as the NY Times recently pointed out, Cook can be guilty of overlooking inconvenient truths. Which here is that most young women (and men) wouldn't find it 'cool' or 'fun' to live with 8,000 co-workers in factory dormitories where they can be roused out of bed in the middle of the night by Apple for an emergency 12-hour shift to fit glass screens into beveled iPhone frames, although that too conjures up a scene from Pleasure Island.

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Re:Sick and tired of the MRAs

[AmiMoJo]

Why do the MRAs have to wade in on every discussion about this? We get it, you don't want to read or comment on these stories, so why do you keep doing it?

Why do MRAs keep repeating what everyone already knows? Of course it's about equal opportunity, not equal outcome... It's even called "equal opportunity" in many places.

More to the point, why don't they get that hiring it always done on merit? It's been discussed often enough, and they claim to be fed up of reading about it, yet the message hasn't sunk in. It's obvious, all the discussionn is about finding ways to get more women to apply in the first place, not giving them an easier time at interview or making the tests easier for them or giving them an easier job. I can't fathom where the MRAs got this idea from, because they never point to any evidence of it happening (well, except the odd anecdote from some pissed off dude who got passed over for a job/promotion and so it must be sexism, because how else could they not be the best??!)

Then there is the classic "why aren't there more women collecting rubbish or in prison". What kind of idiot tries to "improve" the situation by making it worse? Didn't they notice the vast amount of money and time being spend trying to keep everyone out of jail (well, except in parts of America where it's an industry, but that's hardly a sexism issue)?