* Posts by Victor-Boffin

4 publicly visible posts • joined 22 Dec 2023

Women in IT are on a 283-year march to parity, BCS warns

Victor-Boffin

More GPs are women because it is a thankless life in the salt mines helping everyday people and men want to be high paid private specialists; they also get preferences in residencies.

Women working part time as GPs is a sign of the double shift--women working two jobs because men refuse to do half of one aka doing their share helping to raise kids, and society doesnt provide the support needed.

More gender equity means more full-time GPS.

Victor-Boffin

Your comment implies anyone who isn't a man who is hired has no merit. This may not be your intention, but you may find

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_meritocracy

interesting.

Victor-Boffin

There were women programmers in the 1950s because the current stereotype of a programmer that came in with the 1970s was not yet a thing, and they were more than secretaries.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/forgotten-black-women-mathematicians-who-helped-win-wars-and-send-astronauts-space-180960393/

Certainly during the war women were more likely to do various jobs as men were away fighting, but the scale of war activities was less in the UK (and thr anglosphere in general) afterward, and neither lost the amount of male population in that war that they had in WWI, unlike say Russia.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_computing

Victor-Boffin

Your comment assumes that women are naturally more emotional and interested in emotions and that the tech space is egalitarian because you have experienced it that way.

I can assure you that both of these assumptions are verifably untrue.

Also, the lack of true egalitarianism and the false pseudo-meritocracy of tech have a double effect where race is concerned.