<story><title>You can’t fix diversity in tech without fixing the technical interview</title><url>http://blog.interviewing.io/you-cant-fix-diversity-in-tech-without-fixing-the-technical-interview/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>balls187</author><text>Indians of Asian descent are a minority in the US, but well represented in Software Engineering. Further, there are plenty more Indian, Chinese, and Russian female engineers, than there are American (of european, aka White) female engineers.&lt;p&gt;I am less inclined to believe there is systemic bias against women, and minorities, and instead a culture difference between groups who are well represented in engineering, and groups which are not.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>T2_t2</author><text>&amp;gt; I am less inclined to believe there is systemic bias against women, and minorities, and instead a culture difference between groups who are well represented in engineering, and groups which are not.&lt;p&gt;And that cultural difference is INDIVIDUAL CHOICE.&lt;p&gt;When people are free to choose whatever they like, because they aren&amp;#x27;t scared of starving, which is true in Western countries, they overwhelmingly choose gender stereotypical professions. This is most true in the most gender neutral countries, Scandanavia basically, where the gap is the widest in traditional roles such as nursing. As you go down the GDP per capita list, the gender gap shrinks.&lt;p&gt;Indian, Chinese, and Russians are from cultures where ANY job is hard to get, and good jobs are very few and far between. Because jobs are scarce and a safe, middle class life requires sacrifice, people in these developed countries are more likely to choose jobs based on pay and availability than what they will enjoy.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=tiJVJ5QRRUE&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=tiJVJ5QRRUE&lt;/a&gt; is a Norwegian documentary on this, in 8 parts, and it is well worth a watch.</text></comment>
<story><title>You can’t fix diversity in tech without fixing the technical interview</title><url>http://blog.interviewing.io/you-cant-fix-diversity-in-tech-without-fixing-the-technical-interview/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>balls187</author><text>Indians of Asian descent are a minority in the US, but well represented in Software Engineering. Further, there are plenty more Indian, Chinese, and Russian female engineers, than there are American (of european, aka White) female engineers.&lt;p&gt;I am less inclined to believe there is systemic bias against women, and minorities, and instead a culture difference between groups who are well represented in engineering, and groups which are not.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pj_mukh</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s because Indian (particularly) men consider engineering to be a safe choice (source: am Indian). Anecdotally, speaking to women (esp American), they find engineering to be categorically unsafe from a career progress perspective. You may not &amp;#x27;see&amp;#x27; the bias, but they definitely feel it. The effect is measurable.&lt;p&gt;I am no expert, maybe it has something to do with maternity leave regimes or the interviews (like OP mentions)?</text></comment>