The Grace Hopper Celebration is meant to unite women in tech. This year droves of men came looking for jobs.

  • BorgDrone@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    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.

    • ramble81@lemm.ee
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      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)

      • lobut@lemmy.ca
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        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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          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.

          • lobut@lemmy.ca
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            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?

          • jet@hackertalks.com
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            1 year ago

            Not profit, but how hard the role is to fill. More supply, less demand in terms of salary.

      • BorgDrone@lemmy.one
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        Because men and women have different preferences? How is this a problem? Should men and women like the same things?