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> The more countries drift away from "patriarchy" and towards "matriarchy" the fewer women go into tech.

We literally don't have matriarchies, there's no data about it. And I also don't know why you put that in quotes, it's an actual word.

> Many of these countries are more egalitarian than the US as per the data in the original post. Perhaps you should not have assumed that all Eastern European countries are less egalitarian than the US.

Of really? Which ones? Because Hungary certainly isn't.

You just proved yourself wrong and you're not addressing what the core of the argument of what I said.

> The fact that these rates are overwhelmingly in a relatively narrow band between 20-35%.

> The overwhelming majority of countries studied had female representation in tech between 15-30%. This is indeed a fairly consistent rate.

I'm ignoring the fact that you can't even keep your numbers straight within the same comment...

It's not consistent at all, it's almost the entire range!

And given that close to 0% or 50% is unlikely to happen in any country, that's pretty much where you expect the probability distribution to land anyway. It says nothing.

It's like saying unemployment falls between 5-40% in the majority of countries. Well d'oh, it's expected. It says nothing about the health of the countries in questiom.

> I agree, the alleged correlation between Eastern Europe and rates of female representation in tech is BS and random - but that was your alleged correlation...

Wait, what exactly is your allegation then, if not that?

> Countries on the other end of the spectrum like Turkey and Indonesia have 35%. This is still barely over 1/3rd.

You're still not addressing the labour participation rates between women and men. You don't get it.

> For example, Indonesia has a female labor participation rate of 52% as compared to the United States' 56%. Vietnam has a female labor participation rate of 76%.

You're suppressed to compare bergen women and men in the same country. Women's labour participation rate has less than nothing to do with Vietnam.

You don't get it.

> Adjusting for this does not explain the difference in representation in tech.

Yes it would, you just don't know how to adjust for it.

> Furthermore, even if it were you are erroneously assuming that if more women entered the workforce those women would.

It doesn't matter if they would or not, it won't affect the statistics, you still need to adjust for it.

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