Sunday, March 15, 2015

Discrimination Online

The internet is a place where women are treated with a lot of discrimination. They are earning less for the same work and this is evident in software development companies. Though, this does not just happen in the tech industry. There are a slew of examples of women even receiving death threats for just speaking their minds in the tech industry. There need to be solutions to this type of treatment of women. There needs to be consequence even for these threats. Threats do not have the freedom of speech protections and they do carry weight. Having more women in tech may require changing a system that from its funding, to its hiring and promotion, to its never-ending workdays, is designed to send women running the other way. But that's just what needs to happen. There also needs to be a review of how much males and females are being compensated at the same level. it might be a good idea to have an outsider come in and do the review because there are things that the CEO might miss. Lastly, it is important to completely change the internet culture. Any more suggestions?

4 comments:

  1. Regardless of gender, everyone should learn mobile application development. It will almost always come useful in an field.

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  2. I also think that software development should start in grade school. Our world is going in that direction so the education needs to follow.

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  3. Software development is useful in any type of business. It will improve the image and increase your presence online.

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  4. There is the same problem in mobile application development. Why is there this perception that only males play games?

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