Mum discovers 'racist' T-shirt which features a black mermaid with 'too fluffy' hair in Tesco
Diversity means people can find more angles to attack you on
Violinist Apologizes for ‘Culturally Insensitive’ Remarks About Asians - The New York Times - "A master class by the renowned violinist Pinchas Zukerman was supposed to be the highlight of a recent virtual symposium hosted by the Juilliard School. Instead, Zukerman angered many of the roughly 100 students and teachers in the class on Friday when he invoked racist stereotypes about Asians, leading Juilliard to decide not to share a video of his master class afterward with participants, as it had initially intended. At one point, Zukerman told a pair of students of Asian descent that their playing was too perfect and that they needed to add soy sauce, according to two participants in the class. At another point, in trying to encourage the students to play more lyrically, he said he understood that people in Korea and Japan do not sing... Zukerman’s remarks were widely denounced by musicians and teachers, with many saying they reinforced ugly stereotypes facing artists of Asian descent in the music industry."
If people from different cultures play identically, does this mean that there's no need for "diversity"?
Minority professor denied grants because he hires on merit: 'People are afraid to think' - "An award-winning Canadian scientist said he has been refused two federal government grants for his research on the grounds of “lack of diversity” — even though he is originally from India and has repeatedly suffered racism. Patanjali Kambhampati, a professor in the chemistry department at Montreal’s McGill University, believes the death knell for the latest grant was a line in the application form where he was asked about hiring staff based on diversity and inclusion considerations. He says his mistake was maintaining that he would hire on merit any research assistant who was qualified, regardless of their identity... Kambhampati said he didn’t go public after the first grant was rejected but decided to speak out now because the increasing use by the government of equity, diversity and inclusion, aka “EDI,” provisions, as well as woke culture, are killing innovation, harming science and disrupting society... Kambhampati’s work explores the cutting edge of super-fast laser science, a field that spans everything from telecom to medicine. He believes Canada can become a world leader in the field. But his application for a $450,000 grant this month from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) was turned down because, the council said, “the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion considerations in the application were deemed insufficient.”... Because both applications were rejected at the bureaucratic level, it means that neither proceeded to the step where they would be forward to other scientists to review Kambhampati’s proposals... Around the same time that Kambhampati’s latest application was turned down, another arm of the government, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, gave Dr. Lana Ray, a professor at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ont., a $1.2-million grant to study cancer prevention using traditional Indigenous healing practices. When the award was announced, Ray said “We need to stop framing prevalent risk factors of cancer as such and start thinking about them as symptoms of colonialism.”... “In childhood I used to get constant beatings and name calling,” he told National Post, adding that as an adult, he would also get harassed by U.S. border guards, and has been racially profiled in Canada, too. “Two years ago, I had eight police officers break into my house because I was sitting on my porch while brown. That happened on Canada Day.” But he says his experiences taught him to treat everyone equally and fairly... “if I want to focus on merit, fairness and equality, then you get called out as a racist or sexist and I refuse to let that happen to me”... “I actually get called a racist constantly by white university students who believe that prejudice plus power equals racism. And as a result (they say), I have internalized racism. So, if you are a minority who thinks that the racism of the woke left is overstated they say you have internalized racism.” Kambhampati believes woke ideology, that is so prevalent on campus and has leached into government, is creating two major problems: self-censorship and a resistance to asking meaningful questions... “As a scientist, our job is to think about how nature works, ask questions, and find answers without prejudice. We cannot do that anymore. We cannot ask how humans work, and how science and nature work, because the woke are interfering with us and saying, ‘You can’t ask those questions. You’re a racist. You’re a sexist. You’re a homophobe. You’re a colonialist. You’re a something.’ There’s some way in which the woke are trying to get people (so they’re) no longer asking meaningful questions. “People are afraid to think. People are afraid to say what they think.” Kambhampati said woke ideology had accelerated in the last several years. “And now it’s the prevailing culture” but he believes “it’s 90 per cent of the normal people against 10 per cent of the vocal minority that has shamed everyone into self-censorship.” Kambhampati said that as a child his mentors were “old, white World War Two vets” who taught him how to build radio-controlled airplanes. “And that’s what led me to build lasers 30 years later.” Now, as a mentor himself, Kambhampati said he has helped men and women of different cultures and religions."
Institutionalised racism is only bad when it hurts "minorities"
Jesus Criticized For Lack Of Diversity Among Apostles | The Babylon Bee
Denzel Washington Promotes the Importance of Looking Beyond Race: 'Diversity Shouldn’t Be Mentioned Like It’s Something Special' - "In a recent interview for his film, The Tragedy of Macbeth, Oscar-winning star Denzel Washington spoke about how he feels the U.S. should already be considered a “post racial” society and why actors should reject the preoccupation of racial “diversity.”... The Training Day star plays the lead in a story traditionally focused on a white protagonist, but Washington thinks the diverse casting decisions for the Joel Coen-directed film should not be a big deal. Washington added that he does not want fans to watch the film merely because it has a “diverse” cast... “You know, in my humble opinion, we ought to be at a place where diversity shouldn’t even be mentioned, like it’s something special. These young kids — Black, white, blue, green or whatever — are highly talented and qualified. So that’s why they’re there”... Washington also recently argued against the anti-police narrative so popular with most of Hollywood’s leftist stars. The Oscar-winner made his support for America’s police and soldiers clear in an interview in February in which he called out people who “put down” America’s law enforcement and military, men and women for whom Washington said he has “the utmost respect.” “I have the utmost respect for what they do, for what our soldiers do, [people] that sacrifice their lives. I just don’t care for people who put those kind of people down. If it weren’t for them, we would not have the freedom to complain about what they do,” Washington said while promoting his film, The Little Things."
Adam Zivo: China’s lack of immigration will make it a more dangerous superpower - "In many countries, ethnic communities have a direct impact on foreign policy. This is most straightforwardly achieved through the ballot box, especially when communities are concentrated in dense pockets where they can control electoral outcomes. Cuban-Americans exemplify this, as they predominantly live in the Miami area and have the power to swing Florida’s tight elections. Because of them, American foreign policy is reliably tough on Cuba’s dictatorship. Civil society actors, and lobbyists in particular, are another channel of influence. African-American organizations such as the NAACP, for example, were instrumental in pressuring the United States to sanction South Africa in 1986 as punishment for apartheid. Lobbyists also produce high-quality, community-informed research that is provided to politicians for free, and this de facto research subsidy opens up decision-makers to new perspectives and causes that they would otherwise be unaware of. In a similar spirit, ethnic minorities routinely make their voices heard through the media, shaping public opinion and applying political pressure. Finally, diverse communities produce politicians who occasionally advocate for issues relating to their homelands. Last year, several Punjabi-Canadian MPs condemned India’s violent suppression of mass protests by disgruntled farmers. Combined with grassroots activism in Punjabi-Canadian communities, this pushed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to support the protests, despite pushback from the Indian government... as there are virtually no Chinese citizens of African descent, there is no significant political action within China on behalf of aggrieved Africans. With political opposition safely sequestered in Africa, China can rest assured that its foreign adventures will not destabilize its domestic politics. Of course, even if China did have more immigration, it would likely jail anyone who speaks out against the regime, as it does with other dissidents, but this process could potentially be destabilizing, and China fears instability. Hence, a larger immigrant population could still be a constraining force despite the country’s authoritarianism."
Ironically, this is suggesting that immigrants and their descendants are fifth columnists - or at least that they have interests that are going to be different from the natives and which may not always align with their new countries
Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ on Twitter - "Meet UC Berkeley's new Vice Chancellor of Equity & Inclusion. "[Her] identity is Latina, first born, raised by a single mom," and she deals with the "emotional toll" of doing DEI-BJ work and "dismantling systems of oppression" through "mindfulness breathing." Salary: $325,000."
Facebook - "Joe Biden says he’s only going to pick a black woman for the Supreme Court to replace retiring Stephen Breyer, which is blatant racial discrimination against Whites, Asians, and every other race. Turning people away from a job opening in the United States because of their race is against the law. But systemic anti-Whiteism is allowed (and encouraged) in America today by the Marxist Democrats. It's for "diversity" though, they say. “Diversity” is a code word for "Less White People.""
Meme - "Written in 1988 rulebook for the tabletop RPG Cyberpunk 2020. That's some prophet shit right there.
DIVERSITY AND UNITY
It is now accepted among historical scholars that in the decades before the Collapse, America suffered from the sicknesses of racism and “cultural identity. Everyone wanted to be seen as special. Every group had to be ”equal” to or preferably better than its neighbors, and fought to protect its ”special” rights. If anyone had something that someone else wanted, they were painted as racist, sexist, elitist or worse. This divisive ”me first” attitude eventually tore the fabric of American culture apart and caused it to self-destruct in a fireball of competing ideologies, none of which truly recognized each other's validity. Diversity led inexorably to anarchy."
Does Board Ethnic Diversity Impact Board Monitoring Outcomes? - "This study investigates whether board ethnic diversity is associated with stronger board monitoring outcomes. We explore a range of outcomes – CEO compensation, accounting misstatements, CEO turnover–performance sensitivity and acquisition performance – but find no evidence to support this. We also find no evidence that board ethnic diversity improves overall firm performance, even for those firms with higher agency problems. Our results are robust across different methodologies and have important practical implications, by informing the current public policy debate on board ethnic diversity."
Does a helping hand put others at risk?: affirmative action, police departments, and crime - "Will increasing the number of minority and women police officers make law enforcement more effective by drawing on abilities that have gone untapped and creating better contact with communities and victims? Or will standards have to be lowered too far before large numbers of minorities and women can be hired? Using cross-sectional time-series data for U.S. cities for 1987, 1990, and 1993, I find that hiring more black and minority police officers increases crime rates, but this apparently arises because lower hiring standards involved in recruiting more minority officers reduces the quality of both new minority and new nonminority officers. The most adverse effects of these hiring policies have occurred in the areas most heavily populated by blacks. There is no consistent evidence that crime rates rise when more women are hired, and this raises questions about whether norming tests or altering their content to create equal pass rates is preferable. The article examines how the changing composition of police departments affects such measures as the murder of and assaults against police officers"
Meme - Casey Neistat @Casey: "so our cars got robbed this morning because Los Angeles is a crime riddled world shithole of a city but tremendous appreciation and gratitude to the hardworking officers at the @LAPDWestLA who not only arrested the motherfucker but they got all of our stolen goods back"
Wren @SirWrender: "Hey man, sorry your car got broken into and I know you're just angry but... Calling one of the most diverse cities in America a crime riddled world shithole and then thanking the police is kind of a problematic take. You're better than this."
Diversity causes crime?
Demography - the study of human population and society - Posts | Facebook - "The image bellow shows the share of people who say they completely/mostly agree with the statement: “Our people are not perfect, but our culture is superior to others.” It seems there is a (strong?) correlation between this issue and multiculturalism. Surprisingly, the country where ethnic identity plays important role (in the political life, but not in daily one?), #Spain, recorded the lowest share. “While there are exceptions, Central and Eastern Europeans overall are more inclined to say their culture is superior. The eight countries where this attitude is most prevalent are all geographically in the East: #Greece, #Georgia, #Armenia, #Bulgaria, #Russia, #Bosnia, #Romania and #Serbia.”... Data: “Eastern and Western Europeans Differ on Importance of Religion, Views of Minorities, and Key Social Issues”"
Looks like diversity makes a culture weaker, since it is no longer better than other cultures
Chevron diversity ratio to improve as layoffs progress - "Oil major Chevron Corp CVX.N expects to reduce the dominance of white males in company management during cost-cutting this year, upping the share of senior level jobs held by women and ethnic minorities to 44% from 38% last year... Chevron executives were among those at big corporations to speak in support of the “black lives matter” campaign, which has become a global movement against racial injustice following the killing of George Floyd by police officers in Minneapolis."
Convenient way to cut costs by laying off older employees
Just Questioning "Diversity" is a Thought Crime - "THIS EXCELLENT OP-ED in the Vancouver Sun on how “Ethnic diversity harms a country’s social trust and economic well-being,” based on scientific studies, was scrubbed from the internet in less than 24 hours. It proves that “diversity” is a psyop that excludes genuine diversity i.e. opinion...
A decade ago the fundamental belief among Danes toward Muslim immigrants was that these newcomers would see how wonderful Denmark was and naturally want to become Danish as quickly as possible. This turned out to be naively wrong. At least half of all Muslims polled across various western European countries believe today that their Shariah law is more important than national law...
In other words, a not insignificant proportion of Muslim immigrants have no intention of assimilating into any western society... Many western nations assumed that increasing ethnic and cultural diversity through immigration would be beneficial. The dogma of diversity, tolerance, and inclusion assumed that all members of the society wanted to be included as equal citizens. Yet, instead of diversity being a blessing, many found that they’ve ended up with a lot of arrogant people living in their countries with no intention of letting go of their previous cultures, animosities, preferences, and pretensions. Let’s give the devil his due. Diversity, tolerance and inclusion was actually a commendable perspective. It assumed the dominant society was leaving people out of full participation... Yet, the most important question was overlooked: What if some did not actually want to be included? Denmark recognized this problem long ago and is now finding practical solutions. It knows what it was — a country that worked very well when it was homogeneous, where everyone wanted to be and was a part of society. They spoke the same language, understood the same customs and traditions, and held the same beliefs. The result was that people trusted each other and the economy flourished... Harvard economists Alberto Alesina and co-authors from a paper titled, Fractionalization, argued that greater diversity leads to stunted economic growth... The World Values Survey began an investigation into cross-cultural beliefs, values, and motivations, and has since shown that societies with high social trust are not only more economically productive but also happier. The most successful are homogeneous countries, not the diverse ones... is it possible for a country to have diversity and social trust at the same time? Studies by researchers Hooghe, Reeskens and Stolle in a 2008 paper indicate that ethnic diversity in and of itself is not inherently destabilizing, at a national level. A country can indeed have multiple ethnicities and still have high social trust. But there is a catch. It is at the neighborhood scale where high ethnic diversity erodes trust, according to researchers Peter Thisted Dinesson and Kim Mannemar Sønderskov from 2015. The more direct the interaction with diversity, the more social trust drops. This accounts for why people segregate themselves into ethnic enclaves. People like to be around others who are the same as them. Those overwhelmed by newcomers that are not like themselves, lose trust and soon move out. This is quite a paradox. Diversity at a national level does not necessarily erode trust but at the neighborhood level it does... Switzerland is a good example of this paradox in action. With four recognized ethnicities — German, French, Italian and Romansh — they also have high levels of social trust. How? It’s simple. Each ethnicity has its own geography and government. It does not mix ethnicities, nor does one try to control the others. If a country wants diversity, expect enclaves to form. This may work out fine in the long run, as it has in Switzerland. Or it may turn into a bloody mess, as it repeatedly does in the Balkans... the minimum requirement is that we say goodbye to diversity, tolerance, and inclusion if we wish to be a society that can rebuild the trust we used to have in one another and start accepting a new norm for immigration policy — compatibility, cohesion and social trust."
New Peer-Reviewed Danish Academic Study Finds Diversity Is Not A Strength - "The study, entitled ‘Ethnic Diversity and Social Trust: A Narrative and Meta-Analytical Review’, was conducted by Peter Thisted Dinesen and Merlin Schaeffer from the University of Copenhagen and Kim Mannemar Sønderskov from Aarhus University.Seeking to answer whether “continued immigration and corresponding growing ethnic diversity” was having a positive impact on community cohesion, the study found the opposite to be the case.Studying existing literature and also carrying out a meta-analysis of 1,001 estimates from 87 studies, the researchers concluded, “We find a statistically significant negative relationship between ethnic diversity and social trust across all studies.”Eric Kaufmann, Professor of Politics at the Birkbeck University of London, also tweeted about the study, commenting, “Higher diversity *is* significantly associated with lower trust in communities, even when controlling for deprivation.”"
Ethnic Diversity, Economic and Cultural Contexts, and Social Trust: Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Evidence from European Regions, 2002–2010 - "across European regions, different aspects of immigration-related diversity are negatively related to social trust. In longitudinal perspective, an increase in immigration is related to a decrease in social trust. Tests of the conditional hypotheses reveal that regional economic growth and ethnic polarization as a cultural context moderate the relationship. Immigration growth is particularly strongly associated with a decrease in social trust in contexts of economic decline and high ethnic polarization. However, there is some evidence that in contexts of low polarization the relationship is actually positive."
ETHNIC DIVERSITY AND TRUST - "Using data from U.S. states, I investigate the relationship between ethnic diversity and trust. I find a negative relationship between ethnic polarization and trust and a U‐shaped relationship between ethnic fractionalization and trust"
The downside of diversity - "Putnam's work adds to a growing body of research indicating that more diverse populations seem to extend themselves less on behalf of collective needs and goals... [He] spent several years testing other possible explanations. When he finally published a detailed scholarly analysis in June in the journal Scandinavian Political Studies, he faced criticism for straying from data into advocacy. His paper argues strongly that the negative effects of diversity can be remedied, and says history suggests that ethnic diversity may eventually fade as a sharp line of social demarcation... more diverse communities tended to be larger, have greater income ranges, higher crime rates, and more mobility among their residents -- all factors that could depress social capital independent of any impact ethnic diversity might have. "People would say, 'I bet you forgot about X,'" Putnam says of the string of suggestions from colleagues. "There were 20 or 30 X's." But even after statistically taking them all into account, the connection remained strong: Higher diversity meant lower social capital. In his findings, Putnam writes that those in more diverse communities tend to "distrust their neighbors, regardless of the color of their skin, to withdraw even from close friends, to expect the worst from their community and its leaders, to volunteer less, give less to charity and work on community projects less often, to register to vote less, to agitate for social reform more but have less faith that they can actually make a difference, and to huddle unhappily in front of the television." "People living in ethnically diverse settings appear to 'hunker down' -- that is, to pull in like a turtle"... Glaeser and colleague Alberto Alesina demonstrated that roughly half the difference in social welfare spending between the US and Europe -- Europe spends far more -- can be attributed to the greater ethnic diversity of the US population. Glaeser says lower national social welfare spending in the US is a "macro" version of the decreased civic engagement Putnam found in more diverse communities within the country. Economists Matthew Kahn of UCLA and Dora Costa of MIT reviewed 15 recent studies in a 2003 paper, all of which linked diversity with lower levels of social capital. Greater ethnic diversity was linked, for example, to lower school funding, census response rates, and trust in others. Kahn and Costa's own research documented higher desertion rates in the Civil War among Union Army soldiers serving in companies whose soldiers varied more by age, occupation, and birthplace... "Everyone is a little self-conscious that this is not politically correct stuff"
Robert Putnam's Diversity Research Distorted by Putnam - "Putnam himself is the one distorting his research, by attempting to elevate his personal speculation (that diversity brings long-term net benefits) to the level of his data analysis (that shows diversity causes significant present-day problems)... Uncomfortable with the implications of the data analysis, Putnam sandwiches it between misdirection and speculation"
The downside of diversity - Schumpeter's notebook - "THE closest thing the business world has to a universally acknowledged truth is that diversity is a good thing: the more companies hire people from different backgrounds the more competitive they will become. Diversity helps companies to overcome talent shortages by enlarging their talent pools. It helps them to cope with globalisation by expanding their cultural horizon. It stimulates innovation by bringing together different sorts of people. And so on. But what about the downside of diversity? It does not pay to ask this question. Many countries have equal-opportunity laws on their books. American universities (and many others as well) are institutionally committed to the idea that diversity promotes learning and creativity. Most important perhaps, nobody wants to come across as unsympathetic to minorities or unappreciative of cultural variety. Yet a glance beyond the corporate-diversity statements suggests a more complicated picture. It is notable how many of the world’s best companies, such as McKinsey and Apple, have cult-like cultures—probably because they are also very diverse: they need a strong culture. It is also notable how many of the world’s best companies are rooted in small towns: think of Lego (Billund) or Walmart (Bentonville). Distinctive religious groups such as the Mormons in America and the Parsis in India have also made an outsized contribution to corporate life. It is far too easy to present “diversity” in one-sided terms: as a triumph of enlightenment over bigotry and creativity over closed-mindedness... Roy Y.J .Chua, of Harvard Business School, is one of the few academics to produce serious studies of this subject... getting people from different nationalities and cultural backgrounds to co-operate is fraught with difficulties. At best differences in world-view and cultural styles can produce “intercultural anxiety”, at worst outright conflict. The very thing that can produce added creativity—the collision of different cultures—can also produce friction. The question is whether the creativity is worth the conflict. Mr Chua argues that creativity in multicultural settings is highly vulnerable to what he calls “ambient cultural disharmony”. Tension between people over matters of culture, he says, can pollute the wider environment and reduce “multicultural creativity”, meaning people’s ability to see non-obvious connections between ideas from different cultures. “Ambient cultural disharmony” persuades people to give up on making such connections because they conclude that it is not worth the trouble... “ambient cultural disharmony” has its strongest impact on people who regard themselves as open-minded. Closed-minded people expect cultural tensions. Open-minded people don’t expect them and so react to them more strongly. In another irony, Mr Chua also discovered that the only people who are not affected by cultural conflict, at least in terms of creativity, are the people who are at the heart of it. They are more likely to explain the problems in personal rather than cultural terms."
The Downside of Diversity - "According to psychologist Debra Connelley, increasing diversity and team-based work structures can spark office conflict. This is typical, she says, of any environment in which very different types of people are forced to interact closely while attempting to assert their own goals and personal values... People tend to shut out information that doesn't mesh with their own beliefs, especially when it comes from someone they don't like or trust, says Connelley. Moreover, people define problems differently and attribute the causes to different sources."
Leaked Amazon Whole Foods Docs: Workforce Diversity Helps Prevent Unions - "Leaked internal documents from Amazon-owned Whole Foods reveal the company rates their stores using a "diversity index" and determined the threat of unionization is "higher" at stores with "lower diversity."...
'Store-risk metrics include average store compensation, average total store sales, and a "diversity index" that represents the racial and ethnic diversity of every store. Stores at higher risk of unionizing have lower diversity and lower employee compensation, as well as higher total store sales and higher rates of workers' compensation claims, according to the documents.'
This should give you a clue as to why our Woke Capitalist rulers are so eager to preach the mantra of "diversity.""
Comment: "Intersectionality prevents union, by playing out races against each other, people cannot will not unite based on shared economical position..Intersectionality fractures society, by telling blacks they are victims and should distrust white people, tell women are victims, and all men want to sexually and financially rape them. That muslims are special due to their special religion, telling them the rest of the world will try to oust them.They tell that anyone who does not bend to their ideology are fascists, white nationalist, sexists, cis genders, patriarchists, haters of the disabled, etc etc etc.While saying they push for integration, in reality all they do is polarise over up to 20 group dimensions and chase all those groups apart from each other..The only real struggle is that between the economic classes and intersectionality does everything to ignore that most important struggle . Poverty is what you find for all races and they all need to unionise to fight together to better their position. Intersectionality distracts and disarms this movement.In other words intersectionality does the dirty work for the super rich, and gets enraged by finding out their strategy does not work so they double down."
Tech industry’s diversity push pleases white workers, survey finds, but not others - "To Stetson, who is a white woman, and others from underrepresented groups in Portland’s tech scene, “culture fit” sounds like an excuse to hire more of the same type of person already working at a company – and to exclude categories of people struggling to find a foothold in a persistently exclusive industry... Most white people in the industry said their companies take diversity seriously and would recommend someone from an underrepresented group work at their company.But among people from other racial and ethnic groups, and transgender people, fewer than a third agree."
Maybe ensuring culture fit means you won't hire someone who'll hate the company and will then leave it, incurring high turnover costs - and who may even sue the company for not being inclusive
The First 1940s Coders Were Women–So How Did Tech Bros Take Over? - "programming was often conflated with low-level clerical work commonly performed by women like typing or filing, writesNathan Ensmenger, a professor of informatics and computing at Indiana University.These stereotypes about the job helped keep its pay and prestige low... When professions shift from male-dominated to female-dominated, they usually see decreases in pay and prestige. Teaching and nursing, once considered male fields, are today largely low-paying, pink-collar occupations"
Presumably men go for and dominate high paying prestigious jobs because of 'sexism'
When Women Stopped Coding - "Modern computer science is dominated by men. But it hasn't always been this way.A lot of computing pioneers — the people who programmed the first digital computers — were women. And for decades, the number of women studying computer science was growing faster than the number of men. But in 1984, something changed. The percentage of women in computer science flattened, and then plunged, even as the share of women in other technical and professional fields kept rising."
When you look at the data, you find that the noticeable drops in % Of Women Majors in Computer Science happens when overall enrollment surges. So it's not that women are being discouraged from going into the field - but that a lot more men are going into it. So mischevous claims about how women are being edged out of computer science are (purposely?) conflating more men entering the field with women being marginalised
The Secret History of Women in Coding - The New York Times - "Wilkes enjoyed the relative comity that existed among the men and women at Lincoln Labs, the sense of being among intellectual peers. “We were a bunch of nerds,” Wilkes says dryly. “We were a bunch of geeks. We dressed like geeks. I was completely accepted by the men in my group.”... even as Wilkes established herself as a programmer, she still craved a life as a lawyer. “I also really finally got to the point where I said, ‘I don’t think I want to do this for the rest of my life,’ ” she says. Computers were intellectually stimulating but socially isolating. In 1972, she applied and got in to Harvard Law School, and after graduating, she spent the next four decades as a lawyer. “I absolutely loved it”"
The Secret History of Women in Coding - The New York Times - "Wilkes enjoyed the relative comity that existed among the men and women at Lincoln Labs, the sense of being among intellectual peers. “We were a bunch of nerds,” Wilkes says dryly. “We were a bunch of geeks. We dressed like geeks. I was completely accepted by the men in my group.”... even as Wilkes established herself as a programmer, she still craved a life as a lawyer. “I also really finally got to the point where I said, ‘I don’t think I want to do this for the rest of my life,’ ” she says. Computers were intellectually stimulating but socially isolating. In 1972, she applied and got in to Harvard Law School, and after graduating, she spent the next four decades as a lawyer. “I absolutely loved it”...
many of these women, besieged by doubts, began dropping out of the program... the women who did persist and made it to the third year of their program had by then generally caught up... "It turned out that having prior experience is not a great predictor, even of academic success”...
It became clear to her that the occupation’s takeover by men in the ’90s had turned into a self-perpetuating cycle. Because almost everyone in charge was a white or Asian man, that was the model for whom to hire... If biology limited women’s ability to code, then the ratio of women to men in programming ought to be similar in other countries. It isn’t. In India, roughly 40 percent of the students studying computer science and related fields are women... Carnegie Mellon would try to address the male-female imbalance in its computer-science program... They also modified the courses in order to show how code has impacts in the real world, so a new student’s view of programming wouldn’t just be an endless vista of algorithms disconnected from any practical use... potential coders worry less that the job will be isolated, antisocial and distant from reality. “Women who see themselves as creative or artistic are more likely to pursue computer science today than in the past”... Winning TechCrunch as a group of young women of color brought extra attention, not all of it positive. “I’ve gotten a lot of comments like: ‘Oh, you won the hackathon because you’re a girl! You’re a diversity pick,” Balakrishnan said. After the prize was announced online, she recalled later, “there were quite a few engineers who commented, ‘Oh, it was a girl pick; obviously that’s why they won.’ ”"
Apparently those who drop out have the same characteristics as those who persist, so we can conclude from the characteristics of female graduands that the women who didn't drop out would have succeeded if they'd persisted
Strange how Asians managed to get in (and indeed are over-represented) when they weren't the model for whom to hire
Amazing how the implications of the fact that less gender equality leading to more statistical equality are ignored
Affirmative action just leads to "minorities" being looked down on