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> Microsoft is directly tied to promotion of women employees, and as a result, a lot of women now occupy positions they would not otherwise. Again, the impact is decreased ability to execute.

I mean are you saying women are worse leaders? Because it seems to me microsoft is harnessing the limitless potential of gender diversity. With a gender-diverse staff they will be able to crush their peers by streamlining against horrible things such as toxic masculinity where the bourgeois men keep down honest and hardworking proleteriat women

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My reading: the comment meant that encouraging diversity became a goal and it led to unintended consequences.

edit: lead > led

How I interpreted it is that where there's a limited pool of women and promotion of women is encouraged, eventually you'll have some women who have worse leadership qualities than their male counterparts getting promoted over them.

Works both ways btw, if promotion of men is encouraged, you eventually have men of worse leadership qualities than fellow female colleagues promoted over them.

Amazing how no one who replied was able to understand sarcasm.

Do you agree or disagree with this?

1. there's a significant population of men in tech who make the environment actively hostile for women,

2. women know about this,

3. many women do not want to work in environments actively hostile to them, and

4. women who choose to work at them underperform because dealing with hostility directed at you does take a cognitive toll

(I am only responding to this very weird straw man: "With a gender-diverse staff they will be able to crush their peers by streamlining against horrible things such as toxic masculinity where the bourgeois men keep down honest and hardworking proleteriat women")

True. AWS is also clearly leveraging the boundless power of gender diversity as its master plan to fade into irrelevance in the AI race.

Wait till you find out what the newly appointed bourgeois women are capable of

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