Author Suggests Tech Focused on H1B Visa Hires to Detriment of Women, Minorities
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Women engineers are underrepresented in every part of the world, and the problem has to be fixed by helping the (mostly female) teachers and counsellors from the primary school level so they can talk about the subjects to girls. The less they know about the subject, the more they'll talk about what they know.
http://www.thejournal.ie/gender-equality-countries-stem-girl...
Few of my acquaintances are high school teachers and almost all the girls have an image of IT as nerdy / geeky with overweight guys banging on the keyboards.
IMO you need to get rid of the image of STEM being social awkward, male dominated field.
I took some of their girl students to my office and showed them various kinds of IT work and how it can be interesting and surprisingly a huge number of them signed up for IT in their University
To the contrary, we find that H1B workers today are paid slightly above similar U.S. workers in the same city and job according to Glassdoor data — about 2.8 percent more on average. Whatever the pros and cons of the program, low pay for H1B workers isn’t something we see in the data."
From the article you linked.
>By contrast, there are many examples of jobs where H1B workers usually earn less than U.S. workers — despite legal requirements that employers pay “prevailing wages” to H1B workers. Four examples of these types of jobs are shown in the table below: data scientist, financial analyst, programmer analyst, and software engineer. In these cases, H1B workers usually earn less than otherwise similar U.S. workers.
>For example, among software engineers, H1B workers earned less than or equal to U.S. workers in every city we examined, ranging from equal median salaries in Seattle to -17 percent less in Chicago. Similarly, H1B salaries for programmer analysts were lower in nine of the 10 cities we examined, ranging from -1 percent in Atlanta to -28 percent in Chicago and Washington, D.C. (H1B pay for programmer analysts was 7 percent higher in one city: Philadelphia).
It doesn't seem to list any tech jobs that are paid above US workers either, only below & at average. I am not saying all H1B workers are paid less than US citizens.