Posted on 08/27/2015 6:59:57 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
At the end of the day this is just another effort by Liberals to force big wealthy corporations (Google, Boeing, General Electric, etc.) to “spread the wealth around” to members of the various self-identified victim groups.
Whether they are capable of making a contribution or not.
Silicon Valley is going to end up hiring a bunch of blacks to sit around and do basically nothing. Mark my words.
How many of them are educated as software engineers? (That's both men and women.) My experience is there are tons of people, male and female, in IT, particularly developing software, that couldn't engineer/architect their way out of paper bag. Good coders are rare as well. I think a lot of this has to do what is being taught in college these days and there are many working in IT that have little more education than a few corporate IT training classes.
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.
All of my devs (5 current and the two new hires) have computer science degrees, a couple have a Masters.
My QA’s (5) all have degrees in something other than computer science or engineering.
Sounds like some men many have been too.
None - for logical, reasonable people. But we're not dealing with any of those. Understand that the totalitarian mindset DEMANDS that you agree with its proponents. They are smarter and better intentioned than you - you (and me, and everyone who is not them), who are both stupid and evil. They not only want to win (i.e. dictate the results on any particular issue), they want you to be punished for daring to even THINK differently. Maybe, maybe if you publicly repent and identify yourself to the world as being stupid and evil, you will avoid too much punishment.
These people are the evil ones, and they will never stop as long as there is breath in their bodies. They are political versions of the Terminator. Understand and remember what they are, and you will be much better off.
That sounds very typical of QA’s. You are fortunate to have devs with those backgrounds.
When my daughter started out in IT, she was the only female.
Today the numbers have flipped. All except the “Unix guys”
whatever that is. They have remained mostly male.
I wish that would fit in a tagline. That is some extremely important wisdom there. Well done.
So. What.
So sick and tired of the gender wars.
bump for later
“eunuchs” guys, just happens to be true also...
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.
You have a sample of one.
Since the population of women engineers with the ME background (or AE if the university had it)has NEVER amounted to more than 5% you comment is not only lacking in logic it shows a distinct view point
Nah they won’t bother with that. Since the 1970s they have been hiring second rate Indian and Chinese to do that; all the while keeping wages low
Clearly your filter is broken.
1. An ME is NOT the lone criteria for an engineering position.
2. I’m not talking about ratios in the general defense industry population, I’m talking about the proportion of women in management positions WHO ARE RUNNING THINGS.
125,000 are employed there....so I’ll take that “sample of one”.
Women Are Under-represented in the Tech Field
and
Men are Under Represented at Abortion Clinics!
who cares!
You apparently don’t know statistics. Tell me out of all the managers at Boeing ( or where ever you work) how many women are ENGINEERING managers? How many women ENGINEERS do you have?
Your sample is still a sample of one because you are talking about one work location in one company.
So what are the numbers?
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