TT recently posted a self congratulatory PR article on affirmative action hiring in tech. I thought it was bullshit and wrote a response. There should be at least one dissenting voice responding to this crap. "Giving female technologists a chance" is code for lowered standards: affirmative action for women and discriminatory hiring which disadvantages men. Native Asian and Indian women have long competed on equal footing with their male peers. Their attitude has always been to strive for excellence and to show competence. Now TT and other companies want to implement a policy which gives advantages to wealthy North American women who already have been born into privilege. A sensible hiring policy would implement gender and race blind hiring standards. Gender and race blind hiring would allow any person regardless of race and gender to demonstrate their skill in a fair setting. Instead, TT and others have decided to disadvantage men while lowering standards for women. This is a bullshit policy designed to garner publicity and nothing more.
"The only time a trader on the floor looks away from his positions is when there is an attractive female in the vicinity"