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That engineer is probably accurate on most points, but
Posted on: August 6, 2017 at 10:04:20 CT
JeffB MU
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could have avoided a lot of the controversy by pointing out that most of those 'gender gaps' are not caused by hiring choices in the HR department, but by the choices of the men and women themselves.
My oldest son said that they got all of the interns together at the company he worked for this summer and he laughed because virtually all of the computer science & IT interns were male and virtually all of the accounting interns were female. This was not due to the hiring practices of the company, but due to the fact that men disproportionately chose to major science and technology fields and the women in accounting (& probably nursing and teaching) etc.
My oldest daughter will be a freshman this year and chose accounting as her major, despite the fact that she did very well in science and math in high school and was advised by teachers, friends and family to go into one of the STEM fields where the pay was better, the jobs more plentiful and companies were falling all over themselves to try and hire more women. She knew all of that but insisted that she wanted to go into accounting.
Meanwhile, my son's computer science classes are some 90% male.
What are companies supposed to do, pay big bonuses to women who are teachers and accountants to work in their IT departments?
My oldest son said that they got all of the interns together at the company he worked for this summer and he laughed because virtually all of the computer science & IT interns were male and virtually all of the accounting interns were female. This was not due to the hiring practices of the company, but due to the fact that men disproportionately chose to major science and technology fields and the women in accounting (& probably nursing and teaching) etc.
My oldest daughter will be a freshman this year and chose accounting as her major, despite the fact that she did very well in science and math in high school and was advised by teachers, friends and family to go into one of the STEM fields where the pay was better, the jobs more plentiful and companies were falling all over themselves to try and hire more women. She knew all of that but insisted that she wanted to go into accounting.
Meanwhile, my son's computer science classes are some 90% male.
What are companies supposed to do, pay big bonuses to women who are teachers and accountants to work in their IT departments?
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That engineer is probably accurate on most points, but - JeffB MU - 8/6 10:04:20