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You presume too much. What we, I anyway, want is for the CS "population" to reflect the population of people who are naturally good at and enjoy CS. This may not have the same gender ratio as the population at large, but I'm pretty sure we're not there now either. And that means some people are not doing what they they're best at, what they were meant to do, which is bad for both them and society.

Now as a tactical concern on the road there, there are definitely some men in the system who will not react well to there being more women. Trying to change them with reason will have limited effectiveness. I think what we need to do is put enough highly competent women in front of them that they either have to shut up or look like idiots, thus marginalizing them and their bad attitudes. This will make it easier to get to the natural, aptitude-based proportion of people in the field. This is, IMO, a good reason to encourage well-suited women to go into the field. I don't know of a better way to accomplish the goal of reducing gender bias overall.



>that means some people are not doing what they they're best at //

It's a laudable aim to help people do what they enjoy as a career. It's laughably naive to suppose that we're able to have most people do something they're good at and enjoy as a career. That unfortunately is not the way that society is structured.

If education works and people have abilities and interests then who does the mundane and uninteresting jobs?

>a good reason to encourage well-suited women to go into the field //

Why do we have to be sexist about it, why not just encourage well-suited people?




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