Continuing my watching of the increasing gender discourse in the technology field; here's Jezebel's
latest on Etsy
If you have no women working for you, you might find it hard to get women to work for you: Does a female engineer really want to go work for a company where she's the only woman in the office?
Once again highlighting the not so funny double standard in this coverage. Replace "female" and "women" and you get
If you have no Blacks working for you, you might find it hard to get Blacks to work for you: Does a Black engineer really want to go work for a company where she's the only Black in the office?
Lest you think this is hyperbole, please do note that such "spot in the milk" situations are quite common both in education and the workplace. Certainly This Week with George is one such place (That round table has a thin stable of "the usual" black folks" and they are often not there. Women on the other hand appear just about every week.
Of course I could answer the question with the same tripe I get about race: It shouldn't matter, we shouldn't be looking at
gender[race] but the quality of the candidate and the work. Right?
Right?
Seriously though. It is not so funny to see the arguments that are being passed around in this gender argument that aren't even allowed to see light of day when the subject is race.
