Comment by davidguetta
1 year ago
- I think his main point was that due to differences in biology, that women had more extraversion, openness, and neuroticism (big 5 traits) and that women were less likely to want to get into computer stuff.
I'm generally anti-woke and it was more than that. It's not just 'less likely' it was also 'less suited'
It would be helpful if you can post such a citation. I did a quick search and I'm not seeing "less suited" in his memo.
"women have more interest people to things so to improve their situation we should increase pair-programming, however there are limits to how people oriented some SE roles are".
This is literally saying we should change SWE roles to make it more suited to women... i.e. women are not suited for that currently.
But that's not talking about suitability to architect solutions or write code, it's talking about the surrounding process infrastructure and making it more approachable to people so that people who are suited to software engineering have a space where they can deliver on it.
When businessses moved towards open offices, this infrastructure change made SWE roles more approachable for extroverts and opened the doors of the trade to people not suited to the solitude of private offices. Extroverts and verbally collaborative people love open offices and often thrive in them.
That doesn't imply that extroverts weren't suited to writing software. It just affirms the obvious fact that some enviornments are more inviting to certain people, and that being considerate of those things can make more work available to more people.
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So he's actually thinking of ways to improve the work environment for woman, and people are blaming him for saying that woman are not suitable for the work?
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Which is still pretty ridiculous on the face of it. Software beyond school assignments and toys are always a collaborative effort where extroversion, openness, and neuroticism are benefits to getting stuff done
Based on his software opinions, I'd guess he was let go for performance issues more than anything. It's unlikely that he could write code that another person could agree with, work with, or read, and that if somebody asked about his code, he'd be unable to talk about it.
It's fair to say that general female population is less suited, i.e. a random woman is less likely to be suited than a random man.
We're talking about small fractions of both men and women, mind you.