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The Feminisation of the Web (why more women are neeeded in tech) (broadstuff.com)
4 points by timr on June 6, 2008 | hide | past | favorite | 6 comments



My favorite quote (because it's true): "given that they control more household spend than men."

Hard to accept cries of "discrimination" when all indications are that women already control more than their share (of wealth, power, whatever measure you would like). There's probably only 20% women engineers because any obviously competent woman immediately gets promoted to management.


This suggests that there are fundamental differences between men and women, and that to get some particular behavior or result you'll do better with women.

Yet that same argument, when used to advocate using men for one or another tasks, is usually ridiculed.


Straw man. The fact that some people choose to deny the differences between men and women has no bearing on the argument made here.


My point is that people can safely say that women have skills often less seen in men, but not the reverse.


Based on what the article describes, it seems useful to have more female UI designers, not necessarily more female engineers.


So, bitch warning ahead...

the karma barrier is really high here. I posted the parent link that this blog entry is based on, it's still in not-front-page-purgatory. And it has exactly one point less, and I've been hanging around for a while here, don't have much less karma than the poster of this story. And the exact same number of comments.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=210812




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