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> It would definitely show the critics of hiring more women in technology, that it really is about equality.

Given that they haven't done this does that mean that critics of hiring more women in tech are right in their conclusion that it isn't about equality?

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I don't think so, because Google is primarily a tech company not a teaching company.

However I'd be disappointed in Google if they didn't try to even out the gender ratio of the teachers and hire some more males as well. I can understand it would look like hypocrisy to some.

Im actually wondering if Google was using the number of employed female teachers to increase their overall male/female ratio... it seems like a 50/1 ratio has to have an explanation behind rather than pure chance

It looks like that's a somewhat normal ratio for pre-k teaching. The percentage goes up for male teachers as kids age for some reason.

http://www.menteach.org/resources/data_about_men_teachers

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