Reply to post: Re: This is absolutely true when it comes to gender balance

1 in 5 STEM bros whinge they can't catch a break in tech world they run

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Re: This is absolutely true when it comes to gender balance

"Hence, less talented women are employed and subsequently promoted ahead of more competent men."

That's quite a leap to make.

If a company is recruiting for one position then the applicant who is successful could be male, female, asian, mixed race, black etc. They might also be the best applicant. That person may also be be promoted based on merits, that person may have been the female. It doesn't necessarily mean that fewer women who study a subject means that less talented women are employed or promoted.

Just using your 10% figure.

It could just be that the fewer number of women studying are all more highly capable due to social factors. So all the 10% women may be at the same technical level (or, god forbid, higher) than the top 10% of men. Therefore it may be that having 50% or higher women in the top jobs would make sense.

You can't correlate the number of people studying to the talent of that pool.

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