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Only 5.3% of US welders are women. After years as a professor, I became one

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254 points Michelangelo11 | 2 comments | 06 Nov 24 00:24 UTC | HN request time: 0.553s | source
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brodo ◴[06 Nov 24 15:49 UTC] No.42064112[source]▶
Should this even be discussed here? It’s not tech-related, and the "all professions need to be at least 50% female“ argument always leads to the same, emotional discussions.
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1. LitFan ◴[06 Nov 24 16:28 UTC] No.42064731[source]▶
Seeing a parallel to another field with more blatant examples of the types of discrimination keeping women out of tech-related jobs is helpful.

And more discussion around these issues is more likely to lead to positive outcomes than ignoring them.

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2. rootusrootus ◴[06 Nov 24 16:55 UTC] No.42065196[source]▶
> And more discussion around these issues is more likely to lead to positive outcomes than ignoring them.

Sometimes I wonder.

The left spends a lot of time pointing out that the right is bigoted, and the right just shrugs, because so what? These two groups disagree on whether there is a problem.