Anyone else notice tech iconography and ads are now targeted heavily female
If you look at advertising for coding bootcamps, Udacity, Coursera, company career/recruitment sites etc. they are heavily featuring stock photos or iconography of women or women as the primary focus. Additionally at work, I've noticed whenever software engineer or most roles are mentioned in a slide or doc, there is very consistently a female icon or stock photo. An African-American or white male will be occasionally represented but it's especially rare to see an Asian male represented in any imagery. It seems like the trend is only growing. I thought diversity was supposed to be an inclusive effort. It would be great for inclusion if they strike for an equal representation in imagery.
Wow, whining about the tiniest thing when you are not in the center of attention. I bet you never said anything when such "imbalance" were in your favor.
Not quite sure when it was ever in my group's favor. Asian males in the west have very rarely been represented in media or advertising now or before.
It's a social experiment. They're trying to make coding super welcoming to women and minorities, in the belief that young ones will be inspired or feel welcome to join the field. Will it work? I'm guessing no, but we'll find out in 10-20 years.
I don’t have any link to back it up but I’ve heard that women are more likely to share and spread things online
It's just futile attempts at social engineering by the WIT gang. But like all "equal outcome" approaches it will fail sooner or later.
Equal representation in imagery would end up excluding the folks they want to reach. Your marketing people can explain this to you.
Idk what you are complaining about. Bootcamps, udacity, and coursera are scams who have probably saturated the market of gullible and desperate males. Of course they’ll want to tap into the untapped woman market.
Scams??
yes they are scams. Advertise to desperate people (for example, the noobs on cscareerquestions) that if they signup, they will land their dream job. Also they are a lot of times taught by people who overstate their own skills.