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In Response To Anti-diversity Memo, YouTube CEO Says Sexism in Tech is 'Pervasive' (theverge.com)
An anonymous reader writes: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki has responded to the Google anti-diversity memo, writing in a column for Fortune that the questioning of women's abilities is "pervasive" in tech and that the memo is "yet another discouraging signal to young women who aspire to study computer science." Wojcicki opens by saying her daughter asked her, "Is it true that there are biological reasons why there are fewer women in tech and leadership?" Wojcicki says no, it's not true, but the question has still plagued her throughout her career. "I've had meetings with external leaders where they primarily addressed the more junior male colleagues. I've had my comments frequently interrupted and my ideas ignored until they were rephrased by men. No matter how often this all happened, it still hurt," she wrote. In the meanwhile, The Guardian reported on Wednesday that more than 60 current and former Google women employees are considering suing Google on the grounds of sexism and a pay gap.
She most certainly DID NOT call it an "anti-diversity" memo, that was the work of some editor (downstream from Fortune) somewhere, trying to get clicks. Try READING what she wrote.
Lack of equality of outcome (50% or higher females in STEM) does not rampant sexism in technology make.
Women don't need to tell me I'm not biologically suited to nursing. I already know it.
And as a man "in tech", I can state that I do not force women or anyone else out. Maybe you're thinking of management, which frequently seems disproportionately concerned with stereotypical appearances, usually in a negative way. "In tech", we generally take a merit-based view of things. Can you do the job? If so, good. Can you be trained to do the job? If so, train well, and you're on board. Could you do the job or be trained to do the job, but want things handed to you because of some stereotype you think holds you back and so the world owes you? Get. The. Fuck. Out. I don't want you. I don't care if you have a hole or a pole, you're a useless pile of meat that isn't pulling its own weight.
The main problem I see is that the inmates at Google started running the asylum. And when a meritocratic ideology begins to take hold and someone dares to call the SJW's out for being what they are (entitled with a victim complex), they cry like babies in the most public possible forums until they get their way.
I'm sure this same scenario is true for someone with a son, so how is gender the determining factor?
XKCD said it well.
Not only did a single woman calculate the reentry for Grissom she HAD TO DISCOVER THE NEEDED MATH.
I would like to see you stream a Stock KSP session where you recreate Grissoms flight with only RSS installed as mods.
(i think you have 20 square miles to land in)
Oh and do the calcs by hand on paper with only a simple calculator