#underrepresentation

this is is how it looks on pale skin:

this is how it looks on darker skin:

This is what the front page of Google looks like if you look it up:

All to say that people of color need to be represented in medicine, and the chronic underrepresentation has devestating results.

That is all.

Sources:

Wikipedia - first photo

NHS - 2nd and 3rd photo

Did Medical Research Routinely Exclude Women? An Examination of the Evidence

Many persons have voiced the belief that medical research studies often excluded women. Wenger and colleagues argued, "The infrequent inclusion of women in clinical research until very recently warrants scrutiny to clarify whether women have been excluded from participation for medical reasons." LaRosa and Pinn lamented, "The exclusion of some women from clincal studies may sometimes be valid, but not all women all the time." A 1993 editorial in The New England Journal of Medicine made this categorical assertion: "There is little doubt that women have been systematically excluded as subjects for study...it is not surprising that most clinical trials have been heavily, if not exclusively, weighted toward men"

The purpose of this commentary is to examine the empirical basis for the proposition that medical research, especially research sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), commonly excluded women. I examine both epidemiologic studies and clinical trials, analyzing both the number of studies by the sex of their participants, and sex-specific enrollments in medical research studies. I draw upon previously-published articles, analyses of the Medline database (which first became operational in 1966), and internal NIH documents.

I pay particular attention to the period before 1990. I emphasize this time frame in order to minimize the effects of the establishment of the NIH Office of Research on Women's Health in 1990, the appointment of Dr. Bernadine Healey as NIH director in 1991, and the passage of federal legislation in 1993 intended to assure female participation in NIH research.

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NIH data for 2018-2024 are publicly available. For free.

“Compared to the underrepresentation of women and minorities in tech, the scarcity of programmers in their forties and beyond has mostly escaped notice. ... The software industry is overwhelmingly young. The median age of Google and Amazon employees is 30, whereas the median age of American workers is 42. A 2018 Stack Overflow survey of 100,000 programmers around the world found that three-quarters of them were under 35. ... Anxious developers in their late thirties chime in and identify themselves as among the ‘older.’”

“Lifelong programmers must keep their skills up to date, but they are in a race against time in a constantly transforming industry. According to a 2018 research paper, skills change faster in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) jobs than in other industries, and the headlong rate of change for programmers is especially severe. Kadeem L. Noray, one of the paper’s authors, says that ‘STEM is more skills-oriented that other fields,’ valuing short-lived competencies over durable wisdom. For each skill a STEM professional learns, another becomes obsolete, leaving little chance for accumulating skills and increasing salary.”

“Making the software industry more welcoming to coders past their thirties and creating roles suited for very experienced programmers will make companies more effective and more fair. These changes will also benefit the rest of us — in a society increasingly governed by software and algorithms, programmers must gain some wisdom to match their power. They must learn from recent incidents of hacking, biased algorithms, and online incitement of genocide. The only way to do that is for older coders to stay in the industry long enough to pass their knowledge to their successors. Cultivating lifelong coders will ensure that the lessons learned today are still remembered 50 years from now.”

Medium, March 8, 2019: “Ctrl-Alt-Delete: The Planned Obsolescence of Old Coders,” by A. Jesse Jiryu Davis

MIT Sloane Management Review, March 29, 2019:  “The Plight of the Graying Tech Worker,” William R. Kerr

Stack Overflow, 2018: “Developer Survey Results 2018″

TechTalks, March 29, 2019: “Ageism in tech: the not-so-invisible age limit developers face,” by Howard Williams

29% des députés dans la chambre des communes sont des femmes.

6.6% des députés élus en 2015 n’étaient pas blancs.

32% des députés dans la chambre des communes étaient étudiants d’une école privée, par rapport à 7% de la population.

45% des députés du parti Conservatives et 14% des députés du parti Labour étaient étudiants à oxbridge, et un quart des députés en général sont licenciés d’oxbridge.