Comment by sbierwagen | Hacker News Reader

Comment by sbierwagen | Hacker News Reader

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>But I don't believe corporations ought to be the ones making a space for that.

Something of a chicken and egg problem there.

If you want companies to stop talking about gender, you need to get the NYT to stop writing articles about how a gender ratio any lower than 50:50 in any role at a company is proof positive that the company is evil and must be destroyed.

This would require that culture, broadly, stop believing women need to have a formal job. Such cultures exist, but I feel there would be a certain amount of resistance in moving the West to such a model.

> This would require that culture, broadly, stop believing women need to have a formal job

No it doesn't, the gender imbalance in one industry can cancel out over all industries.

I think the point the commenter above was making was this:

"If women cannot work while simultaneously having/raising children there will always be at least a slight difference in the amount of men vs women in the workforce."

But OP specifically mentions NYT articles saying:

  a gender ratio any lower than 50:50 in any role at a company is proof positive that the company is evil

This can happen even if women overall spend as much time in the workforce.

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