In China's Booming Tech Scene, Women Battle Sexism and Conservative Values (reuters.com)

In recent years, even as China's tech industry has boomed, many women say they make far less than their male counterpart for the same job. An anonymous reader shares a report: Reuters spoke to more than a dozen women -- and some men -- in the sector, from entry-level employees to executives, who described an industry where female engineers and coders battle against ingrained biases favoring men. "The traditional view is simply to think that women aren't suitable to be programmers," said Chen Bin, a former Microsoft engineer and the Beijing-based founder of Teach Girls Coding, a campaign to get more women into the sector. "Things are better now than ten years ago, but overall the number of women getting into tech is really small," he said.

China is not the only country where the tech industry has faced heat over a lack of diversity in the workplace. But unlike U.S. peers that have faced legal action over discrimination, including Uber, Alphabet's Google and Microsoft, Chinese technology companies are relatively opaque about gender issues. Most give little data on hiring and none of the industry leaders share the diversity reports that are now customary in the United States, shedding doubt on whether women in Chinese firms hold a comparable number of technical or leadership roles.

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Many women say many things

[Anonymous Coward]

But studies show that on many occasions women don't know what they are talking about.

Why the comparison?

[DNS-and-BIND]

Comparing to America? Why? It is supremely idiotic to believe America is some shining beacon of women's rights. Online mobs regularly go after any woman who dares stand up for herself. Hate speech and death threats are common. Remember #gamergate?

Re:Why the comparison?

[serviscope_minor]

Given your moderation score, it looks like the gamergate crowd is still going strong here. I, too, fully expect to hit -1 for trolling, becaue there's nothing quite so trollish as demanding evidence that someone accused of doing all sorts of bad things (e.g. Anita Sarkeesian) actually did them!

Re:Why the comparison?

[AmiMoJo]

It's telling that people are still trying to cover up the GamerGate harassment campaign like this. As a movement it's long dead, but the vindictive campaign never ends for some people. Even now, years later, they want to hurt those people.

It seems that there is also a men's rights activist/anti-feminist aspect to it, as evidenced by the bogus "men are always guilty" claim. Maybe that is why this lie endures.

Re:This is sexism I actually believe

[jellomizer]

Please explain further.
Where is the line between fabricated sexism and actual sexism?
If a persons gender is equated to any particular business decision then that is sexism.

While things like minimum quotas and preferential treatment can be considered sexism as well. You need to remember that they are there to offset our cultural ingrained bias. And these things should be removed once they are considered to actually be not a problem as they are sexist as well.

This issue isn't that we have two candidates one is a 8 out of ten in skills and the other is a 6 out of ten in skills. So we hire the 5 out of ten to meet a quota. but both are actually 7 out of tens and our bias automatically will make one an 8 and the other a 6. So we need a mechanism to figure to adjust for our human bias.

Now if there are objective and measurable ways to do this then I am all for it. Otherwise we need to deal with the sub-optimal method.

But ignoring the issue or blaming the people complain about it, is not helping, only hurting.