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

That's quite a leap to make.

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.

OK, the two scenarios are thus.

Mine:

In any group of people, there will be a range of abilities. When a particular group of people is 90% male then, by the law of averages, you will have significantly more talented males than females.

Yours:

Mysterious "social factors" conspire to make 100% of women more talented than 90% of the men, for any given group.

And I'm the person making quite a leap! :)

Now, you may argue that the end justifies the means but when a society introduces "positive" discrimination and quotas for positions, it is inevitable that talented individuals lose out to those that are less so.

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