The only people campaigning to keep women out of STEM (CS and Engineering anyway in particular) are your allies. You know, the ones who say the guys in the field are so horrible that women have to be on constant guard, that the level of sexism and misogyny is so high that it's nearly intolerable. The ones who talk about "microaggressions" as if life is free of difficulty for cishet white males and we are making it difficult for others. The ones who claim women have few opportunities for advancement in the field, and will just end up leaving. You want to know who is keeping women out of CS and engineering? Look in the mirror.

You just have to understand what "diversity" means. You'd think it would mean that across employees, you had a varied set of genders, races, nationalities, etc, right? Nope. Diversity applies to an individual person. If you're a white male or an asian male, you're non-diverse. If you're anything else, you're diverse. A company made of 100% black women has perfect diversity; a company with 20% white American men, 20% white European men, 20% Korean men, 20% Japanese men, and 20% Chinese men has no diversity at all.

Unless you can afford to win, it's often more cost-effective to plead guilty than risk spending the rest of your life in a gulag.

Yeah, but life with a felony conviction is like being in a gulag without the State even having to spend money on you.

A group of people rigs the game to the where where they have a stranglehold, to the detriment of ALL others. That same group (or their progeny) then cries that those not-so-fairly won advantages shouldn't be taken away for the sake of the industry ...and themselves.

Yes, tell me again how those Indian, Chinese, Korean, and Japanese people have had the game rigged against them by that bogeyman of bogeymen, the cis-white-hetero-male.

Either Google has extremely high turnover of employees that have kids in daycare for the numbers to drop that far in such a short time or their explanation is only half-true

Or the parents provided up-to-date records to the daycare when they enrolled their kids, then never updated them because no one asked.

Any felony conviction is a death sentence for someone who isn't into manual labor. Even if you don't serve a day. Unless you're Kevin Mitnick or Martha Stewart I guess.

Murder doesn't require intention that someone should die. An action where it is reasonably foreseeable that someone could die, and someone dies as a result, is murder.

It's a lesser degree of homicide, sometimes termed "murder", sometimes "voluntary manslaughter".

If a swatting call that results in death is murder, then a swatting call that doesn't result in death would be attempted murder.

This doesn't actually follow. An attempt does require intent, even if there are circumstances where the underlying crime would not.

1) Generate startup
2) Obtain domain name for stake in startup
3) Declare bankruptcy
4) Buy substantially all assets (including domain name) of startup.
5) Repeat

Woz is a fucking genius. So yes, he'd have been successful in today's climate. Or at worst an unsuccessful genius. Despite all the nonsense further up in the comments, ability exists and is not merely the result of practice.

I answered THAT question, and pointed out that it is a red herring; The "nerdiness" demographic is conserved by BOTH genders, with a tiny bias toward males. That's what the statistics show, and continue to show in other STEM vocations.

No. Almost every engineering field skews heavily male, as does computer science. Biology and health-related fields all skew female. Mathematics and Chemistry approximate parity and Physics skews male but not as heavily as computer science and engineering.

As for empirical study, the rates of CS involvement with women closely followed those with men until about the 80s, when the home computer showed up on the scene, and the advert material focused almost exclusively on male demographics.

Utter bullshit. In 1972, women made up about 20% of computer programmers in the US. This narrative about the personal computer is a recent fabrication. In fact, women's participation in the field hit a local maximum around 1984.

There was an earlier era starting during WWII when women were the majority of programmers in the US... but it was a VERY small field during WWII, and I don't have figures before 1972 so I don't know when that changed.

As a few ACs have colorfully pointed out, foreign language in high school is useless. You can go in, take the course, pass with flying colors, and not be able to speak or read beyond knowing how to greet someone.

I imagine computer science education in high school is equally useless, so the change is of no real consequence.

The problem is that having received a death threat, Sarkeesian and her allies feel they should be able to silence anyone who criticizes them on the grounds that those people contribute the environment in which death threats occur.

I think you're misunderstanding Crowdrise. Lo Ping didn't donate all that money, it was donated by people who selected him as the "Team Member" to get credit for soliciting them.