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Thank you for the voice over. During the mid seventies and early eighties my ex husband worked for Union Pacific Railroad. He would come home complaining that the engineers would have to get off the train to move the switch because the woman they had hired was not strong enough to throw the switch. They had hired her because they had a quota of woman to hire to comply with the law. I kept thinking how wrong this was. She should not have gotten the job if she couldn’t perform the job.The engineers were not happy to have to do their work plus the woman’s.

My husband is an attorney as I have said before. He had to score high enough on the LSAT to go to law school and pass the Bar exam to practice law.

I think about the practicing drs that are not competent to do surgery or perform their other duties. This wokeness is ruining the world.

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I have also seen DEI reduce the quality level and productivity in a large software company. I've worked as a software engineer for 30 years and of the top 10 software engineers I've ever worked with that I would pick for a startup company guess how many of them are women? I would love to be able say I found the most amazing female programmers out there, we only have to give them a chance, and all that, but honestly, I cannot say that, the top 10 I've ever worked with are all male, and I would say the top 100 probably are too. I don't know why it is, but to pretend this isn't true and set false quotas that ignore this fact will only destroy the quality and productivity of our software companies. Take a look at a group photo at OpenAI. It is hilariously male heavy.

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