[High Praise! to The Washington Examiner]
Feminists don’t care about the gender gap in ballet. Why should we care about the one in tech?
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Tutus should come with pocket protectors.
As an extremely odd bird who was once a ballet dancer and heavily into the arts and who also for the last 30 years has been in the tech world and hires IT on a regular basis (looking for Reliability Engineers currently), I can attest to the truth of this article. Not only is there NOT a negative bias against females in tech, there is actually a HEAVY positive bias because they are so hard to locate and hire. The job is the closest a lot of IT geeks will ever get to a female, so hiring them is a big retention driver. I also remember being in a master class early on in my ballet training and being not only one of a few males, but the ONLY straight male, and after the class being offered a chance to dance with the Dallas Ballet Theater. It made no sense other than the fact that I was such a rarity. I’ve had dinner/met with Google teams and other tech leaders, and the reverse bias is very real and glaringly obvious.