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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The need to realize the financial scale of SJWsm

[Kartu]

People need to realize the financial scale of SJW business. Since mid 90th USA alone spends more than 1.5 billion dollars on fighting "domestic violence against women", a case founded on outhright lies, called out in Christina Sommer's book, "Who Stole Feminism". It's one out of endless government programs spent with zero or even negative effectiveness.

It isn't just someone out there with some crazy ideas, ignoring glaring evidence, it is mostly people and organizations who are paid for solving made up problems it is people who would lose their jobs if we finally figure what is going on.

Re:Why the comparison?

[Anonymous Coward]

What's funny is, by the SJW definition of rape, women have raped me. Seriously. They say "if you're too drunk to drive, you're too drunk to consent". Laci Green touts that one all the time. Well, I'll have gone out, gotten drunk to the point where I don't feel it's safe to drive, the women I've been with have not had anything to drink, go home and sleep together.

Oddly enough, despite the SJW definition of rape, I personally don't feel I've been raped as I consented at the time, as did they. And it was a good time.

Re:Why the comparison?

[serviscope_minor]

Yes, damn that Gamergate crowd for demanding that games be reviewed on their merit and not on the basis of what sexual favours the developer has offered the reviewer.

Wow the gamergate crowd is still sore. I guess that's why you have nothing to od but sit around in your mother's basements stewing over threads and spending all your modpoints shouting people down.

so tell me, Mr Ac and the cowardly mods who omdded this up where is the slightest shred of evidence that Anita Sareesian (who I singled out in my post) gave any sexual favours to anyone?

And yes, you should be moderated to -1 for your comment that misrepresents Gamergate.

Ah yes the old -1 truth mod. I know it well.

You apparently don't even know what it was about and seem to believe it was about Anita Sarkeesian. It's clear that you have preconceived ideas about Gamergate and have decided that gamers are a bunch of misogynists without even investigating what happened.

I watched the whole thing unfold at the time. they are a bunch of rampant myisogynists.