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0 pointsbenced3y ago0 comments

Software engineering is a high prestige job. Rightly or wrongly, most female dominated jobs are not.

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CEOs and politicians are even higher-prestige jobs dominated by men, but the sense of moral urgency around achieving gender balance in those jobs seems significantly lower.

Police officers have a lot of power in society & are mostly male. I think there's a strong case to be made that bringing women into the force would be very beneficial, in terms of improved handling of sexual assault cases and reduced police violence. However, I haven't seen a peep about the need to make policing gender-balanced.

jemmyw3y ago

That's not true, at least in the UK the gender and racial balance of the police force comes up a lot in the media.

It's often mentioned about UK politicians too, ie the gender balance of cabinet positions.

Perhaps your view of the apparent moral urgency is because you're in the tech industry and therefore closer to it?

ShredKazoo3y ago

>That's not true, at least in the UK the gender and racial balance of the police force comes up a lot in the media.

Fair enough, I've never seen discussion of police gender balance here in the US.

>Perhaps your view of the apparent moral urgency is because you're in the tech industry and therefore closer to it?

I doubt that's it. I feel like I've seen a lot more coverage of "Women in Tech" in mainstream news sources than any other "Gender in Career" pairing.

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ahtihn3y ago

Eh in my experience it's a highly paid job but there's 0 prestige in it.

bloak3y ago

I tend to agree with that. Lawyers have more "prestige", I think. Of course, a huge majority of people studying law are female. However, despite what the general public thinks, lawyers are not highly paid. (I'm talking about the UK. Some lawyers are highly paid, of course, but lawyers are not highly paid on average, particularly if you divide their pay by the hours worked because the famous law firms that offer reasonably high salaries also expect a lot of unpaid overtime.)

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ShredKazoo3y ago

CEOs and politicians are even higher-prestige jobs dominated by men, but the sense of moral urgency around achieving gender balance in those jobs seems significantly lower.

jemmyw3y ago

That's not true, at least in the UK the gender and racial balance of the police force comes up a lot in the media.

It's often mentioned about UK politicians too, ie the gender balance of cabinet positions.

Perhaps your view of the apparent moral urgency is because you're in the tech industry and therefore closer to it?

ShredKazoo3y ago

>That's not true, at least in the UK the gender and racial balance of the police force comes up a lot in the media.

Fair enough, I've never seen discussion of police gender balance here in the US.

>Perhaps your view of the apparent moral urgency is because you're in the tech industry and therefore closer to it?

I doubt that's it. I feel like I've seen a lot more coverage of "Women in Tech" in mainstream news sources than any other "Gender in Career" pairing.

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ahtihn3y ago

Eh in my experience it's a highly paid job but there's 0 prestige in it.

bloak3y ago

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