What always kinda torques me about these discussions concerning gender bias is the assumption that there is something *wrong* with the fact that there aren't more women involved in such and such profession. And the resulting witch hunt for the various enemies that have caused this malevolent disparity (the sexist teacher, the sexist counselor, etc.) If researchers want to discuss the situation in these terms, would someone please put forth some evidence that there is someone being wronged by the situation first before assuming it?
However, since I'm genuinely interested in this topic, I'm not saying the situation should be ignored. Instead I'll propose an alternate question: Why aren't more women interested in tech careers? or alternatively: Why aren't more men interested in HR careers? My hypothesis would be that women just don't really care about tech careers (ditto for men and HR). I think that if researchers would approach the problem from this perspective rather than trying to further political agendas or sway the balance of largely mythical powers, we might actually end up with something useful.
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What always kinda torques me about these discussions concerning gender bias is the assumption that there is something *wrong* with the fact that there aren't more women involved in such and such profession. And the resulting witch hunt for the various enemies that have caused this malevolent disparity (the sexist teacher, the sexist counselor, etc.) If researchers want to discuss the situation in these terms, would someone please put forth some evidence that there is someone being wronged by the situation first before assuming it?
However, since I'm genuinely interested in this topic, I'm not saying the situation should be ignored. Instead I'll propose an alternate question: Why aren't more women interested in tech careers? or alternatively: Why aren't more men interested in HR careers? My hypothesis would be that women just don't really care about tech careers (ditto for men and HR). I think that if researchers would approach the problem from this perspective rather than trying to further political agendas or sway the balance of largely mythical powers, we might actually end up with something useful.