> one gender (or race, or whatever else) is widely discouraged from entering certain lucrative occupations or receiving certain levels of education in certain fields, for instance.
Has that ever been true? I have heard people say "Men push women out of engineering" but in my experience it's been the opposite--it's been men trying to get women interested in engineering.
There are uncountably many WISE, SWE, girls who code, etc. groups that try to encourage women to go into STEM. Women get STEM scholarships that are only available to them.
The problem the article is trying to solve is already solved.
Sites like Hired let people bid for you with salaries first.
Places like Glassdoor post salary ranges.
And all the companies I've worked for have had internal salary ranges for a position which cannot be negotiated around. Just because they aren't public, doesn't mean they don't exist. I had a job offer that was lower than my current salary but they wouldn't match my current salary since it was out of their range. And I'm a straight, white male.
> I expect make a San Francisco salary working remotely from other countries
I don't even making a San Francisco salary working not remotely in the US. It should be illegal to pay people different wages based on where they live, but it's not. Companies pay the market value of labor in a given region.
It's not the jobs I'm worried about; it's the housing. Where are we going to put all these people? SF already has the median home of around $1,000,000. Pro immigration policies will just make it worse.
Has that ever been true? I have heard people say "Men push women out of engineering" but in my experience it's been the opposite--it's been men trying to get women interested in engineering.
There are uncountably many WISE, SWE, girls who code, etc. groups that try to encourage women to go into STEM. Women get STEM scholarships that are only available to them.