@SkepticalOfMost HP was known as a company that promoted women, especially in Boise Idaho, Corvallis Oregon and Palo Alto CA. HP cared so much about women, that they started women’s conferences, to try to retain women employees in the 1990s. I helped organize one in Fort Collins CO, and attended the Boise Idaho Conference, in 1991 or 1992. HP was highly successful company that spun into about 12 different companies. See Keysight inc which
is headquartered at the Santa Rosa CA HP location on Fountaingrove, Broadcom has semiconductor manufacturing in Fort Collins CO, in the HP building I started out in, and Agilent is still alive, as well as HP Inc and HP Enterprise.
If you owned HP stock, you would have stock in a lot of companies by now. I own it! So I have time to blog !
HP was a great company for women, ask any woman who worked there.
Most other companies do not treat women the way HP did.
So I disagree that any particular male female ratio will cause a company to do better or worse. Gender is largely a don’t care, but if any company was gender diverse, it was HP in the 1990s to present day.
Women need to get used to working with men, for most jobs in Silicon Valley. We will get there. Artificially changing the ratios hurts a lot of people. Remember that CMU accepts a large number of cash pay international students today
to make their budgets work out. I think they accept 16% international students who pay full price. Then, CMU also
has a bucket for first generation college. And buckets for race. This means that many students are shut out.
The solution would be for schools like CMU and MIT to increase the number of freshman seats.