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In US, only 1.5% plumbers are female: http://www.contractormag.com/blog/stop-calling-yourself-plum...

In IT, in 2008 women held 25% of all professional IT jobs in the US: https://www.forbes.com/sites/lorikozlowski/2012/03/22/women-...

An order of magnitude difference.

I have never seen discussions about gender-based discrimination for plumbers, or biological or sociological factors preventing women to seek career in plumbing. My personal opinion, on average, women just don’t want to do plumbing. And the society seems to be OK with that.

I wonder what’s so special with the software development that causes companies to do positive discrimination, gender-based hiring targets, and other stuff these companies apparently do in the US?

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>>I have never seen discussions about gender-based discrimination for plumbers

In general only jobs which have a high value of effort/money-earned are preferable to anybody.

Im pretty sure most plumbers don't get into plumbing because they are passionate about it.

Also curiously you can be passionate about something if you earn well doing it. So, ultimately its all about home much money you can make, at what effort.

Make plumbing a high paying job and calls for diversity in plumbing will go up like no tomorrow.

>Im pretty sure most plumbers don't get into plumbing because they are passionate about it.

I'm pretty sure most office desk jockey computer nerds don't get into being stuck sitting at a desk all day because they're passionate about it.

I'm pretty sure most professional head-trauma punching bags don't get into being an NFL defensive tackle because they're passionate about it.

I'm pretty sure most accountants don't get into hunching over spreadsheets and calculators because they're passionate about it.

See? I can concoct blatantly-false statements from lots of my-opinions-are-universal bubbles!

I said exactly what you are saying.

Most people chose jobs because they pay well for little work.

Nobody really calls for diversity among coal miners.

Are you saying that women are too good for plumbing, but men aren't? That's pretty sexist.

You said this, and attributed to me, and posed it to me as a question.

All I'm saying is no body is going to ask for increased diversity in coal mines. This is simple, and not even that hard to understand. Nobody wants to do a job where money/effort-done is very low.

I know a handful of plumbers that love their job (hours/pay/flexibility), and they're pretty awesome people.

"Nobody wants to do a job where money/effort-done is very low" is a generalization.

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