I don't know about politicians and religious leaders, but somehow or another law firms, accounting firms, management consultants and medical practices seem to manage without needing rules about having "always 3 or more people in a room together".
Look at the numbers. There are still pay equity issues all over the place, but in terms of participation, every other white collar industry puts technology to shame. 66% of staff attorneys are women. ~40% of biglaw partners are. And in law, 40% is a problem. In technology, it would be a dream.
And yet technology implementation is the single most accessible industry I can think of, with most of those, esp in Europe, who succeed at it, being largely autodidacts. Everything you need to learn is there and free and you can do it in your bedroom.
The industries you cite are largely people businesses with restricted knowledge paths and require intense experience and with outcome of individual projects being much more vague and often predetermined by the inputs they received when taking on the project.
> In technology, it would be a dream.
My feeling is that females in tech are largely suffering from the outcome of some inherent risk analysis that we experience. Girls are more likely to take definite paths with known success ratios.
This brings the question, why don't we have significant outliers in female in tech given the low barrier to entry at the root level.
I'm not arguing what is required. I'm simply pointing out the adaptation some actors have used in similar circumstances. I'm also making no comment one way or another about women in tech.
I understood your argument, and my response was to put it in perspective. Law didn't fix this problem by coming up with rigid rules about men and women being alone in the same room together.
ISTM we're considering two different problems here. The first, and more important from society's POV, is that there aren't enough women working in the industry. The second, and for some much more personally important, is to avoid being sued for harassment. The people who worry about the latter may be grossly overestimating the danger, but their reactions to that overestimate could still make the first problem worse. Reactions like "same-sex environments", for instance.
So by "putting in context", you're simply saying that other industries had other ways of dealing with things.
Ok. So what?
I would expect different people and different industries to respond differently. Maybe you don't. How various people in various industries react to external stimulus is beyond my knowledge. That's why I find it interesting.
Look at the numbers. There are still pay equity issues all over the place, but in terms of participation, every other white collar industry puts technology to shame. 66% of staff attorneys are women. ~40% of biglaw partners are. And in law, 40% is a problem. In technology, it would be a dream.