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The current scheme of things strongly signals to women (pretty accurately) "your odds of getting hired are lesser than your equally talented male friend."

Do you have some sort of evidence for this? Anecdotally, talented female programmers stay on the market far shorter than males do. Most companies desire a gender balance, which makes the limited stock of female programmers more vlauable.



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