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The article implies that it’s somehow harder to find a job in tech as a woman. In my experience in IT this is quite the opposite. Every company I’ve worked for where I was involved in the hiring process would have loved to hire more women. The problem is that women don’t choose a career in IT.

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ramble81@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
You were so close at the end there…. Now ask yourself why women don’t choose a career in IT? (Hint, it’s not because the requisites of the field)

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- lobut@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I also always found it weird when I hear that women choose jobs that don’t get paid more. As opposed to people asking why are womens jobs have been historically devalued.
  
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  - BorgDrone@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Because jobs are paid not by how valuable they are to society but by how much profit they generate for their employers.
    
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    lobut@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I think ideally in a capitalist society we’d want that to be true. However, cops are paid more than teachers, administrators are paid more than nurses. There’s a lot of what you can get away with as well. I genuinely don’t think we live in a meritocracy. We also have cronyism and nepotism and corruption. If what you were saying were perfectly true, we would be be having all these union battles would we?
    
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    jet@hackertalks.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Not profit, but how hard the role is to fill. More supply, less demand in terms of salary.
    
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- BorgDrone@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Because men and women have different preferences? How is this a problem? Should men and women like the same things?
  
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- cricket97@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  transgender women are overrepresented in IT
  
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