Disparate impact

Major tech firms are trying to hire more women techies. Women make up only about 30% of these positions. Using the rules of disparate impact this means there is discrimination involved. Men outnumber women computer science majors four to one. Men earn 80% of all computer science degrees. Using these criteria then that would explain why 80% of elementary teachers are women. Men are being kept out of these jobs because they are men. There may be reasons in the past why men and women chose careers but those reasons no longer exist but the trend continues. It is more likely that the causes of these discrepancies are not discrimination but rather the choice that people make for their careers. This is why the rules of disparate impact which state that any number in a group that does not agree with the statistical number in that group must be discrimination. Because women represent 50% of the population, they must be 50% of the teachers and the same goes for computer engineers. While there remains discrimination based on gender in both education and computer science in regards to salaries, it is not based on hiring practices.