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originally posted by: Wildbob77
Sadly there is a gender gap in the IT fields.
The big question is why?
I don't think that it's simple. I worked in IT and saw many successful women but their numbers were small compared to the men in the field.
That is a reality. However I don't think the answer is simple.
originally posted by: trollz
originally posted by: Gryphon66
Are you saying that you think personality... ...is biological?
You're not talking about biology, you're talking about stereotypes and anecdotal evidence.
Actually, it is in fact biology. Go ahead and google "differences between male and female brains". And yes, personality does come partly from one's biology.
Men, on average, can more easily juggle items in working memory. They have superior visuospatial skills: They’re better at visualizing what happens when a complicated two- or three-dimensional shape is rotated in space, at correctly determining angles from the horizontal, at tracking moving objects and at aiming projectiles.
Women are twice as likely as men to experience clinical depression in their lifetimes; likewise for post-traumatic stress disorder.
Women, it’s known, retain stronger, more vivid memories of emotional events than men do. They recall emotional memories more quickly, and the ones they recall are richer and more intense.
females’ brains consistently showed more strongly coordinated activity between hemispheres, while the males’ brain activity was more tightly coordinated within local brain regions.
“To some appreciable degree, these brain differences have to translate to behavioral differences,” says Cahill.
Professor fired after defending blacks-only event to Fox News. ‘I was publicly lynched,’ she says.
originally posted by: Gryphon66
Now, where's the study that demonstrates that women (or men) are unsuited for certain jobs due to these differences?
I'm not unwilling to type words, I'm unwilling to make your arguments for you.
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Of course, an employee cannot be terminated for an unlawful reason, such as membership in a protected class or in retaliation for engaging in protected activity (eg, complaining about discrimination, complaining about wage issues or whistleblowing).
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originally posted by: Gryphon66
a reply to: trollz
So you were speaking of gender roles not physical differences between the sexes.
You're talking socio-cultural factors, not biological facts.
Gotcha
originally posted by: UKTruth
The guy spoke the truth.
There are some jobs that women are not suited to, same as men are not suited to some jobs. It has nothing to do with intelligence or capability, and all to do with interest and desire to do certain types of jobs.
Still, pretty dumb move to criticise an employer in that way.
“We found systemic compensation disparities against women pretty much across the entire workforce,” Janette Wipper, a DoL regional director, testified in court in San Francisco on Friday.
Reached for comment Friday afternoon, Janet Herold, regional solicitor for the DoL, said: “The investigation is not complete, but at this point the department has received compelling evidence of very significant discrimination against women in the most common positions at Google headquarters.”
Herold added: “The government’s analysis at this point indicates that discrimination against women in Google is quite extreme, even in this industry.”
originally posted by: jonnywhite
Me thinks something stinks.
originally posted by: Gryphon66
a reply to: trollz
So you were speaking of gender roles not physical differences between the sexes.
You're talking socio-cultural factors, not biological facts.
Gotcha