why is it that there are lesser no. of women compared to men in IT field?

why is it that there are lesser no. of men compared to women in child educator field?

Culture basically.

Also, why is it that there are much less women compared to men in construction, mining, sewer maintenance and high risk jobs in general?

@irene But not in the funny way.

@irene Yup, agreed. That's why there's generally less interest among women in those kinds of jobs. Mother Nature is wise. 😄

Because there is more men than women in the IT field.

Because this

@irene and that's also why men have more rights in such unequal societies with usually high infant mortality - because the men there also have more duties, especially dangerous ones, and need the rights to be able to fulfill their duties.

@irene But that logic doesn't applies in 21st century. We're no more monkeys. Now our society have culture and character which prevents a man from having sex with multiple women. So male and female survival is equally important now.

@retard we are monkeys, just without fur. Some 200,000 years of evolution cannot be overridden within a few decades of culture. Culture itself is a thin varnish upon hard-wired tendencies. Monkeys are gonna monkey, and the rational human is wishful thinking.

What we can do, should do and have done is giving free choices so that women who are willing and able to work in IT may do so. But equality of opportunity does not imply equality of outcome.

I'm curious to know the opinions here about the google's affair with James Damore. I never saw any rant about it, and I was affraid it gonna break some rule if I ask it in a rant.

Now it's a good place to ask about it. It's questioning because the heat around that story seemed to come from the US trch community, or that's what I guess, but I felt the opinions about the matter is not that harsh over here. Well at least people get to talk to each other peacefully.

Btw., it's quite interesting to have a talk with a woman-to-man transgender person who has gone the full way including hormones. Even without proper socialisation, the testo level alone does quite some things to brain chemistry.

@irene https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

@beleg It's political. Damore seems to be moderate or conservative. On the other side Google is known for hosting a strong leftist culture. They must protect those oh so much oppressed every second women and blacks. How? By prioritising them in hiring.
Historic oppression of women and slavey are hot button issues. SJW and 'get rekt libtard' cultures are ever so present. We devs know not to devolve to that level.

kfine2018 I saw what you did here. Very good. 😈

@beleg As with many more things, the guy raises very valid points about forced diversity and how to be inclusive in a reasonable way and he gets slandered and dragged through the mud. Wrongthinkers have no place in the cult.

@irene In brief, the fuss started with leakage of an internal memo by google engineer James Damore, in which he had criticized diversity policies in google, and in the tech industry as a whole. He had also mentioned that one must take into account the scientific results about biological differences of genders (just reciting, don't kill me now) when discussing such issues, referring some papers.

I don't care about if he was right or wrong or whatever, I'm even hardly interested in this topic in particular. I'm just wondering why any serious and rational discussion about that memo, if there was any, should be overshadowed by prejudice and discrimination, the very thing that everyone claims to fight against.

@beleg Not only that, in his paper he provided actual advice on how to take advantage of those biological differences so people can be happier and work to their full potential.

In a broader sense, it seems it's the problem with liberalism, or any critical discourse which does not bound it's domain theoretically, that makes it prone to some kind of a "diagonalization" and gives rise to a self referential paradox; it claims to be ready for change at any level anywhere, but when it comes to self-critisism, it reacts aggressively like a defense mechanism.

I can see the same pattern in some other cases, like Alan Sokal's book "Fashionable Nonsense", and the reactions of the continental school of philosophy in Europe.

Disclaimer: Since I'm not American, not being liberal does not make me conservative.