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Given the underrepresentation of women in tech I think I'm ok with them being chosen over satisfying your ambitions.

What's this supposed to mean? Is this some sort of reverse sexism? Reparation in kind for the gentle sex?

Perhaps the poster was pointing out that the under-representation of women in technology is an actual, real world problem that needs to be solved. This one male's ambitions is not really comparable.

How many female participants we got here on HN?

Is it safe to say that male members outnumber their female counterparts?

If so, what's the reason or the catalyst behind this disparity in interest and participation rate between sexes?

What do you mean, women are under-represented in tech? As in: it needs to be 50/50 men and women? Or as in: the ratio of men/women working in tech should reflect the ratio of men/women who'd like to have a tech job?

its called feminism and its pretty scary

before you downvote this preciding comment (or mine, for that matter), allow me a challenge: If you pick 10 woman who self-identified as feminists at random, how many do you predict will find this 2:1 ratio a good thing ?

I predict 7 or more.

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