Aeolus451 said:
Soundwave said:
First of all, women are not some singular monolithic group, just as men aren't. Some women may like working in one field, others may be fine working somewhere else.
There aren't many women in many fields yet for reasons I stated above ... traditionally men have dominated most working classes because they were the only working class period. That doesn't work anymore for most households.
Women are just now being integrated into a lot more work enivronments and that will continue to accelerate over the next 20-30 years. There are only so many jobs for "daycare workers" and "salon workers" ... women are going to move into fields that typically would be associated with men. Some guys can have a Ron Burgandy esque hissy fit over that, but I don't think it's changes that from happening.
And the computer industry is likely one of them. It isn't a physically demanding field like construction work might be. In general manual labor jobs are going the way of the dodo to begin with. Computers themselves have changed as well, no longer is the computer domain of men, women are a driving force in the adoption of computer technology, as such it only makes sense that companies would seek to hire more women as it is a lead demographic for their products/services.
Here's a study that shows 63% of women prefer their smartphones (a computer) over their partner:
http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2016/10/13/study-women-prefer-their-smartphone-to-their-partner/
The days of the computer being domain of the nerdy guy who sits infront of a giant tower PC are coming to a close but that stigma has existed in the past ("computers are for boys"). Today the definition of what a computer is has shifted. As a computer company I would be looking to hire more women, sure, not on the basis on a quota perhaps, but because a huge portion (perhaps even a majority) of my revenue base is women, if they are a leading consumer group, then sure I want them involved in the design process.
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ugh. The floodgates have been open for a while. If alot of women wanted to work as IT or software programmer, they could. There's no barriers. Women work where they want to work in general like anyone else.
You're really reaching for the bottom of the barrell if you're going for smartphones stats. You forgot something about smartphones. Their main function is it allows you to communicate with other people over distances and with little to no lag. Didn't that memo mention something about women liking things to do with people more than men?
No one is saying that women shouldn't or couldn't do these kinds of jobs. A portion of them just don't care for some types of jobs because some of the cons don't suit them well personally or the demands of it are too much. It's the same way the other way around.
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And a "another portion" of women may find they quite enjoy working in tech fields once the stigma of those jobs being "only for men" is lifted. That could just as easily happen too. Newspaper and magazine industries used to be dominated by men, so was photography. Today no one bats an eye lash at a woman in those jobs.
The fact of the matter is if it's women that are a huge consumer for the modern computer and modern computing services, and the modern computer's primary feature today is indeed social, then to me it just stands to reason it probably doesn't hurt to encourage the hiring of more women to help develop and design future devices/services as well.
