“Mary Jackson is a world-famous African-American sweetgrass basket weaver. In 2008, she was named a MacArthur Fellow for her basket weaving.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Jackson_(artist)?wprov=sf...

I have to say, that sounds more fulfilling than anything I will ever do. People who become the best at anything are usually truly extraordinary.

This is not the equilibrium we are aiming for as a society, and the matter is not settled here.

The point of these measurements is not to demand that women are paid more for less work. The point is for us to keep asking “why”, and not just stop after the first one.

“Why are women earning less at the New York Times?”. Maybe the company is just top-heavy with men in leadership roles. This has been floated in this thread as a common cause.

“Why are there more men in leadership roles?”. A few commenters have shared anecdotes of having far more men in their recruiting process. More men applying would help explain more experienced men higher up in the company.

“Why are there more men than women applying?”. We’re getting closer to root causes now. In software engineering, for example, there are just more men in the workforce.

“Why are there more men in the workforce?”. It gets more difficult, but also more important, to investigate the answer at these lower levels. Girls Who Code and similar initiatives are tackling this behemoth cultural problem. It will take years to see the effect of their work, but their success breeds hope that someday, the gap in this New York Times statistic will close a little.

At any of these levels, a company can step in and try and correct the natural bias in their hiring or development pipeline. That is, of course, the most sensitive topic for a lot of us here. Such initiatives should have buy-in from the workforce, and there’s an implication here that the (unionized) workers of NYT do support some kind of intervention.

Their choice, and above all the very measurement of a wage gap, doesn’t need to be threatening to anybody here. It will forever be important to track this number even if we “feel” like the explanations are simple. It doesn’t represent some kind of action the company should be forced to take. It measures where we are on every level of asking “why?”.

I only found out about https://www.soundslice.com recently. I'm not sure how it managed to evade me for years of searching for music resources on the internet... but for anyone interested in sheet music, I can't recommend it enough.

The design of the whole platform is so minimal and beautiful, and having notation synchronized with YouTube is simply brilliant. Built by one of the co-creators of Django, too!

I'm amazed at how many of us in Los Angeles live here for years and skip this place. It's one of the most beautiful places I've ever been.

https://biffweb.com/p/xtdb-compared-to-other-databases/

It's also possible to compile your JVM Clojure program yourself to a binary with GraalVM for even better performance than Babashka and even faster startup.

But before Babashka, that was indeed a barrier to using Clojure in shell scripts. Now we have it all!

It's surprisingly excellent! Sure, the "language" of paredit features more powerful text manipulation that just simple movement... but combined with the new "jumping" in the latest Helix release [1], it makes for a very impressive keyboard-based navigation system.

[0]: https://helix-editor.com [1]: https://helix-editor.com/news/release-24-03-highlights/