The Invictus

Want to know why women's share of tech jobs is shrinking? Look at the temporary guest workers entering the country, most of whom are male.

That's the case being made by a group that advocates on behalf of U.S. software programmers and opposes H-1B visas. The Programmers Guild plans to release a report this week that re-examines data from a workforce diversity study published last week by the Information Technology Association of America industry group. Among the guild's arguments: the use of H-1B visas contributes to low shares of information technology jobs held by women and some racial minorities.

You can read the full news article here.

I am not sure what to make of this news!! except that some analyst is busy peeling too many onions:-) This could - allow me to have some fun here while indulging in some loose predictions - imply the following scenarios:

1. The report gets thrashed.

Pro: Most realistic scenario.

Con: Too boring - why would anyone be interested in this news?

2. US passes a new legislation - women IT workers can be replaced only by women H-1Bs .

Pro: This would "retain" the sex ratio in the industry.

Con: How the rest of the world is going to come out with as many women IT H-1Bs is a mystery.

3. President Bush makes a statement "Replacing women with women H-1Bs is important, but not enough; racial diversity is also important. Therefore, racially diverse women "is" as important as women and racial diversity to address america's security concerns. We will strive to "displace" all hispanics, asians, arabs and women in American businesses. We will bring in new hispanics, asians, arabs and women who will ensure that our great nation remains as "divorced" as ever. Because racially diverse women "is" more important today than women and racial diveristy was before 9/11".

Pro: Proves that racially diverse women are more/less/equally important (or something to that effect).

Con: of course, that's what it is!