{"id":64130,"date":"2015-02-22T17:31:33","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T01:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=64130"},"modified":"2015-02-22T17:35:43","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T01:35:43","slug":"lat-women-are-leaving-the-tech-industry-in-droves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=64130","title":{"rendered":"LAT: Women are leaving the tech industry in droves"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Los Angeles Times reports<\/a>: <\/p>\n

That’s a huge problem for the tech economy. According to the industry group Code.org, computing jobs will more than double by 2020, to 1.4 million. If women continue to leave the field, an already dire shortage of qualified tech workers will grow worse. Last summer, Google, Facebook, Apple and other big tech companies released figures showing that men outnumbered women 4 to 1 or more in their technical sectors.<\/p>\n

It’s why the industry is so eager to hire women and minorities. For decades tech companies have relied on a workforce of whites and Asians, most of them men.<\/p>\n

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A well-known engineer at Pinterest, 27-year-old Tracy Chou said she was once bypassed for promotion at a previous start-up, where she sensed a pattern of being excluded from conversations and “an undercurrent of sexism.” (Michael Robinson Chavez \/ Los Angeles Times)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Gee, why would she notice an undercurrent of sexism? Why would men want to respond to her in a sexual way given how she dresses? She’s deliberately posing for the Los Angeles Times wearing a dress that goes a foot above her knee? Why would she expect men to react to her in a sexual manner? <\/p>\n

She’s the one choosing to pose as a sex kitten but men are the bad guys for responding to her in that way. <\/p>\n

If things are so dire for women, why don’t they form their own companies? How many little girls grow up dreaming of coding?<\/p>\n

Steve Sailer writes<\/a>: <\/p>\n

As I\u2019ve been pointing out for a couple of years, we constantly read news stories out of Silicon Valley about male chauvinist brogrammers oppressing women whose only dream in life since they were little girls has been to code. And yet, upon inspection of the details, another word often comes to mind: adventuress.<\/p>\n

…You might think that Ms. Pao\u2019s predation upon Mrs. Nazre\u2019s marriage might be an issue, but that\u2019s missing the point, which is that John Doerr is a deep-pocketed rich white man and therefore must pay. Woman v. woman conflicts, while fascinating to other women, don\u2019t fit well within the dominant feminist legal and media frameworks, so they are of no serious interest.<\/p>\n

…Note that Snatchsnap wouldn\u2019t be worth a dime if young women didn\u2019t provide it with so much free content to monetize by taking pictures of their more intimate regions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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