Women in STEM
14th March 2016
Freeberg brings up some inconvenient truth:
Are the geeks like me keeping women out of the field? That is the idea you can see people would like to position ahead of a voice box, just before giving it some hot air so it can lunge out and achieve promotion to spoken thought. They seldom go this far because the thought wouldn’t last long. Keep women out of the field? What meeting was that? I must have missed it. And if I didn’t miss it, I sure as hell wouldn’t have voted yes. Shortening and brightening my work days, working alongside nice-looking intelligent women, like it seems ALL the other male working classes get to do…lawyers, architects, hospital workers, bureaucrats at City Hall, Hooters cooks. Nope, the software engineers just have to toil away endlessly, shoulder-to-shoulder with a bunch of other sweaty guys. Oh, we’re working hard to keep it that way, are we? Well that would be news to this one.
And that really puts it in perspective. I know plenty of women in tech, and they don’t appear to have any problems. The real ulcers here are the people who appear to believe that women are ‘underrepresented’, as if the fact that women make up X percentage of a population ipso facto means that there ought to be X percentage of women in [pick your field here].