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The main story is not tech’s gender imbalance.
The main story is that women *most professions* are mistreated by men & women in them—cf., Nicole & Marty’s story https://twitter.com/SchneidRemarks/status/839910253680553988 ➜ https://medium.com/@nickyknacks/working-while-female-59a5de3ad266 but visible to anyone working a job.
The main issue is gender imbalance among full professors, executives, legislators &c., i.e., middle and upper levels of most professions.
Tech’s imbalance steals all of our porous attention, but it’s just a freak sideshow.
https://octodon.social/media/9dIY9mv1WuY-s6X9P2U
If tech wasn’t this alien carcass freakshow, with it’s ridiculous imbalance distending down into college, I wonder if we’d make progress towards this bigger problem, or if we’d still just be talking about “interest” and “biology” and “child-rearing” in the wider context of women at work.
And the tech imbalance? Newsflash, from tech spouse who grew up in the heart of America: in 90% of the developed world, it’s super-uncool for girls to be into sci-tech—your friends & grandparents won’t get it.