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Google drops a key program for boosting women in tech

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12 points methuselah_in | 1 comments | 23 Oct 25 19:29 UTC | HN request time: 0.219s | source
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ManuelKiessling ◴[23 Oct 25 20:12 UTC] No.45686440[source]▶
See, that’s the single „nice“ thing about the fascists taking over the country — you can see which companies really meant to make a change, and which companies merely swam with the current.
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retinaros ◴[23 Oct 25 20:21 UTC] No.45686563[source]▶
the facist rant is insanity. money isnt free and DEI is old news. even blackrock understood he couldnt milk it. If you want to solve women in tech you need to make more women study tech and not favor them for the jobs they don’t deserve if they are not fit for it. its statistics 101. they are overrepresented in tech jobs vs the number of women graduating in tech.
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1. ericmcer ◴[23 Oct 25 21:27 UTC] No.45687452[source]▶
Downvoted but you are kind of right.

The most clear example of this was Indians flooding tech in the early 2000s. Like this was a few years after 9/11 when brown dudes with accents were facing crazy discrimination, but India had really strong STEM education and was turning out good programmers so they got jobs. If the industry blocked qualified individuals based on prejudice how the heck were middle eastern looking dudes killing it directly after 9/11?