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’.
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
I have a 12 person team of devs and QA. Only three men in that group.
They are also underepresented in autism. There is kind of a correlation there.
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.
I’m a women who worked in the IT field for a number of years. I liked it because it was full of men and only a few women. Men never stood around at my desk talking about their weekend, kids, etc. The manager of the web services department was a women. She was extremely domineering and management knew not to make her anyone’s direct supervisor. I finally left the company because of her. She wouldn’t allow me to talk directly to people I was writing code for and was always trying to turn me into a non-technical paper shuffler like her.
So. What.
So sick and tired of the gender wars.
bump for later
Alternatively, use the Title IX approach. Fire males until the percentage of females rises to approach that of the general population.
I don’t hear any women complaining about a lack of female truck drivers, construction workers, plumbers, pest control workers, sanitation workers - AKA, dirty jobs.
STEM is only gaining the attention because it pays better than most positions.
The end result of these diversity mandates are more women as software testers, tech support, configuration management positions, requirements collection, first level tech support AND classified as STEM workers by the company.
Women Are Under-represented in the Tech Field
and
Men are Under Represented at Abortion Clinics!
who cares!
I wonder if gender played a role in the design of the user interface for Windows 8...