Posted on 08/27/2015 6:59:57 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Women, who outnumber men in college and are more likely to graduate, are underrepresented in computer science fields. That’s female privilege, unless we condescendingly presume they are making the wrong choices in college.
Overall, women received 18 percent of Computer and Information Sciences undergraduate degrees in 2013, yet were 26% of the computing workforce in 2014 (PDF). Women make up 30% of the workforce at tech giant Apple; at Intel, they represent about 24%; 22% of leaderships positions at Google are held by women.
Compared to their rates of participation in STEM majors in college, women also receive disproportionately higher job offers in IT, engineering and physics.
What should we do about their overrepresentation? Well, Intel is upping the ante, adding additional incentives including referral bonuses that are double for women candidates than male. 25% of Intel’s workforce is female; moreover, 35% of its recent new hires were women, both well above the rates at which they are awarded computer-related degrees. This affirmative action decays into reverse discrimination when they introduced a quota system to draw 40% of recruits in 2015 from underrepresented groups.
It’s female privilege to choose to major in English, literature, communications and gender studies in college. These curricula, it should be no surprise, lead to work in areas like social services, health care, education, and public administration.
What’s wrong with that? The market will decide what those professions are worth. Nevertheless, Google knows best, and is dumping money into programs steering women and minorities into STEM programs -- which implies away from the humanities. But we could all use a bit more humanity, and women should be applauded for pursing the “helping professions.” Besides, there’s also a shortage of healthcare workers,
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HA!
They’re taking over in aerospace!
“UNDER REPRESENTED”?
There is no such thing. Qualified, educated women in the tech fields can get jobs just like men do. They provide a resume’ that shows their qualifications and they get hired. I knew hundreds of them before I retired from the tech world.
Qualified? You get the job and you “represent”. Not qualified, you don’t.
Freakin’ liberals.
I’d say that there’s still a good part of the female population who put work second to raising a family. We all don’t want to be on the top of the heap. Many want 9-5...and nothing beyond that. I call it “Take the money and run”.
The reason for under representation is because fewer women are going into these fields.
Over 90% of nurses are female. Over 90% of elementary school teachers are women. About 75% of audiologists are women.
Men are not being discriminated against in these areas. Relatively fewer men are going into those fields.
Relatively few women go into some of the science and technology fields.
If everyone is exercising their free choices about what career fields they are interested in, what exactly is the problem?????
Women, for the most part, do not have the natural skill sets to be in technical field.
Men and women are different. They have different innate talents and different innate desires. AND there is nothing wrong with that!
Stop trying to guilt women into thinking they should be men and men into thinking they are somehow being mean to the girls because ‘math is hard’.
As well it should be. Not too many people have a job that is anywhere near as important as raising quality human beings. Writing new code for the next Super Mario Brothers game is hardly a substitute for being home with your children and making sure they con’t end up gang members and drug addicts.
Well there you have it.
Critical numbers of women today think that writing the new code for the next Super Mario Brothers game is more important than the time raising their children.
Some women squeeze in their children and family around their careers, rather than squeeze in their job around their family responsibilities.
I think it’s because, before it was pulled by Mattel, too many of these women grew up listening to their Barbie Doll say “I hate math”.
What utter crapola. If women don’t take the engineering classes needed then they don’t become engineers.
When I was in engineering school, women populated the EE and Computer Science cores. Less than 1% were in ME. When my auntie was in engineering school the numbers were about the same.
This is just the usual nonsense of the victim class
Somehow they have been convinced that the only things that are truly important in life are really a hassle and a burden. Fewer and fewer women are worth the effort of men and that is why so many go wanting for men.
They have turned themselves into unpaid whores in the bedroom and and whores in the board room.
Not really.
You may encounter a few more women in aerospace but they are hardly ‘taking over’
Nice try though
I have a 12 person team of devs and QA. Only three men in that group.
True. Those innate desires and talents are cultivated when little boys and girls play. At least when I was a kid, boys would build things with Lego's, Lincoln log and erector sets. Girls would play with dolls. That's where it begins developmentally. That doesn't mean that girls cannot go to school and do well in STEM programs. Whether they will be happy working in technology is another story.
They are also underepresented in autism. There is kind of a correlation there.
Best line of the day
Easy solution: The Dept. of Education mandates that every Engineering Prof shall offer male and female versions of all homework, quizzes, and exams. The female versions shall have the simple problems and be half the length of the male versions. Female versions shall emphasize feminine topics such as the chemistry of peroxide, frizziness coefficients, and the hardness of nail polish formulations.
Ya, really!
I’ve been doing this for 40 years at largest defense contractor in the world.
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