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Every team I have been a part of in the last 10 years had been at least 6/4 split male/female. What is it with press and academics summoning problems out of thin air? Also Damore story is more about corporate abuse of people in the spectrum as opposed to some corporate breakthrough in diversity

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Counterpoint: over the 18 years that I've been in the field, we've always had very male-heavy teams. Most teams have been all men. I can only think of one team that had more than one woman on it.

I'm US east-coast, suburban, and definitely not inside the SV culture bubble.

I am a contractor/consultant. I have roughly 3 contracts per year. The only all men team I have seen in the last 5 years was ironically lead and hired by a female manager. Now that I think about it is possible that industries also matter. The team I mentioned worked at heavy machinery manufacturer, teams in health-it, financial, e-commerce, and startups are all super diverse. In health m/f ratio is probably around 3/7. I have no experience with academia

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