Comments on this article: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/25/technology/exposing-hidden-biases-at-google-to-improve-diversity.html?_r=0
As I was reading this article reviewing diversity bias within Google I could not help but wonder if lack of gender diversity is in fact a problem. There is no doubt that females contribute to companies by ways of various forms of thinking, views, and abilities. As a woman in Computer Science, I appreciate all the help that companies such as Google are doing to mitigate gender bias; however, I do not necessarily view the low ratio of females to males as something that needs to be "fixed". With the ratio of females to males in technology-related fields in the education system, it is inevitable that the ratio will be similar in the industry. Also, men and woman are different. They think differently, they have different interests, and they have different social roles. I see firsthand how much Computer Science seems better suited to the way men work and do not see this as a bad thing. Tech Giants that hire more men than women are hiring people who, in my opinion, are innately structured better for technology and who are typically more interested in the work.
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