> That men and women are biologically different is a 100% fact.
For anything that's biological, that's perfectly fine. You won't see anyone suggest men to go to a gynecologist either ;).
> Why do we have to try and make them equal?
Which inequality make sense to you?
> celebrate people as individuals
The goal is to help individuals be who they want to be and not be judged for the sex they were born with or their nationalities.
You are from India right? Perfect example, because of outsourcing, many people believe that Indian people aren't as good in development. You are probably really good, I don't doubt that. However, there may be some people that see on your CV that you are from India and quickly decide that because you are from there, you are less qualified than someone else. Maybe the stats does prove it to be right in general, mostly because outsourcing was a great way to boost India economy, but as an individual for you, they are wrong.
The thing is, changing theses bias are extremely hard and theses bias had a pretty negative repercussion over the years. We need to hire more of them to make sure that theses bias disappear and create an environment that won't make them fear it.
We need to be careful though not to lower the hiring requirement though in the process. We need qualified people that won't create worst bias with time.
This is why I firmly believe this is a case where actions speak louder than words. Pontificating about whether men are biologically predisposed to be software engineers is not a bad thing, marginalizing qualified female engineers because they are female is.
For anything that's biological, that's perfectly fine. You won't see anyone suggest men to go to a gynecologist either ;).
> Why do we have to try and make them equal?
Which inequality make sense to you?
> celebrate people as individuals
The goal is to help individuals be who they want to be and not be judged for the sex they were born with or their nationalities.
You are from India right? Perfect example, because of outsourcing, many people believe that Indian people aren't as good in development. You are probably really good, I don't doubt that. However, there may be some people that see on your CV that you are from India and quickly decide that because you are from there, you are less qualified than someone else. Maybe the stats does prove it to be right in general, mostly because outsourcing was a great way to boost India economy, but as an individual for you, they are wrong.
The thing is, changing theses bias are extremely hard and theses bias had a pretty negative repercussion over the years. We need to hire more of them to make sure that theses bias disappear and create an environment that won't make them fear it.
We need to be careful though not to lower the hiring requirement though in the process. We need qualified people that won't create worst bias with time.