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> Women in 10 years need to be able to provide for themselves, and their families

I had women professors in college. I have a woman software manager. I work with many women. And these women generally wanted to work in software development. Of course we aren't "building the internet" over here or making "internet history". Just some Joe and Jane Schmos plugging away.

I see no need to push an agenda for more women in tech. More women will continue to join the field, but I wouldn't expect it to be representative of the population.

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The agenda is to make the tech community a more hospitable place for women who WANT to be in tech. It's not an agenda to force women into the industry just for the sake of numbers.

Depends on who you ask. Some people are advocating just that.

https://medium.com/tech-culture-briefs/a1e93d985af0

>Get women hired. Make your workplace give a fuck about hiring diverse teams. You are in a wonderful position to advocate and agitate for more diversity in your workplace. Draw attention to your company’s demographics internally, bring in speakers on building team diversity, start a committee dedicated to auditing and improving the hiring process. Oh and make sure this doesn’t just end up in a position where you just hire a few white women and call it a day. Not good enough.

I don't agree with diversity for the sake of diversity. So no, I'll hire the most qualified candidate regardless of race/gender.

No one is saying hire a woman who is less qualified just for the sake of diversity. In that comment, Shanley is asking you to CARE about diversity and look at your hiring processes and company culture to see if what you're doing can be improved. Maybe your company is all white males because you're recruiting at events where only white males go? Maybe you can host a Women Who Code event or go to women's conferences and attract top talent there.

>Oh and make sure this doesn’t just end up in a position where you just hire a few white women and call it a day. Not good enough.

This doesn't sound like they are encouraging employers to hire less qualified candidates just to check off boxes.

However that does sometimes become the end result due to a shortage of good, diverse candidates. In the end you have "hire anyone who meets these demographic criteria just so we can check diversity off our list and call ourselves 'inclusive'".

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