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Anyone who has worked at tech companies and has been involved in the hiring process knows the following:

The best thing to be right now is a woman engineer. You can easily get hired within the week.

Unfortunately this doesn't seem to be well known outside of those involved in hiring.

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Is this anecdotal? Are you insinuating that women have an upper hand now for reasons beyond their skillset?

Yes. There is a bonus to being a woman in this situation, all other things being equal.

Silicon Valley did a good bit on this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dek5HtNdIHY

It's funny because it's true.

This is simply silly. The reason why there's a bias toward hiring women in some roles at some corporations is because they are trying to course correct for the massive amount of systemic bias pushing the other way. For some reason many people (mostly men) seem to easily spot the one type of bias while never being able to see the other.

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