Re: OT: Gender Bias In SW Development
- Posted by mattlewis (admin) Feb 23, 2015
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All of the articles seem to want to paint men who work in the field as sexist.
Er? None of the articles that I provided did so.
You got me. I didn't read any of those. 
But I've read many along the lines of the article that Derek posted.
I'm sure some places are like that, but sob stories from "well known engineers" without any hint of investigation are the opposite of persuasive to me.
I'm sure that the companies questioned were tight lipped about it. Still, I wouldn't say that there was no investigation - the reporters did get some information on big name tech companies (e.g. Google, Facebook) on the percentage of women employed as well as their policies regarding gender and hiring.
Yes, but I didn't see any evidence that they tried to talk to supervisors or other peers. Typically a reporter will say something about how so and so didn't comment or didn't return attempts to contact when they've tried to talk to someone but didn't get anything out of them.
Matt
