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1) Except that in the western world we do not tell people their whole childhood that they are to do X because of their gender. We actively tell people they can be whatever they want, and as far back I can remember in primary school (early 80s) that's been the case.

2) Valuation doesn't always equate to monetary remuneration. For example (at least in Australia), police, teachers etc get FAR more leave and holidays compared to the rest of the country. That needs to be taken into account as part of the valuation. Stress also factors into why certain professions are "worth" more than others. IT is highly stressful, in comparison to other social professions.


Not explicitly can't but there's a lot of 'boys work' and 'girls work' gendering around work and skills. Progress has been made sure but there'll be a lag of decades before changes at the childhood education level work their way through to employment stats.


Exactly right, people don't seem to understand this basic concept.

The only way to achieve an equal split with anything is to discriminate.


It does not suggest anything is wrong. Seeing any group represented more than another in anything that is due to CHOICE does not correlate to an issue.


"CHOICE" is not a get-out-of-sexism-free card. Anyone who builds products or sells anything to anyone ever should know that we have enormous influence over who chooses to consume our products.


If you'd read the copy you'd realise it's designed by Blaz (from Dribbble), I'm just posting on his behalf :)

Edit: it was really just a way to start building photoshop plugins to see what the ecosystem is like, we've got 4 new plugins that are actually useful for a wife audience coming out soon.


> we've got 4 new plugins that are actually useful for a wife audience

Wait, what?


You can thank iOS' autocorrect for that one, "wide" would be the correct word that's supposed to be in there :)


yes... probably later this year they will also release something for the north hemisphere whites


Who says he didn't read the copy? Just because the creator wasn't the one who posted it doesn't make it any less valid of a question.


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