Since Amazon expects its employees to devote their lives completely to their job, the only way single guys working for Amazon are going to find someone to date is if Amazon starts hiring more women. Realistically, though, no one who works at Amazon has time for a social life outside of Amazon. When I worked there everyone socialized with their coworkers (and most of the people I worked with were married).

Groups like Code Fellows and AIDA (Appropriate IT Development Academy) are full of horror stories involving Amazon and women in STEM. Amazon actively drives technical women away to the point they do not bother applying for positions.

@5 Actually, it is assuming that male homosexuality is the same rate as female homosexuality in Seattle. If the rates are the same, then it doesn't really matter. But if male homosexuality is far more common, then it is less of an issue. If female homosexuality is far more common, this is more problematic than it looks. Clearly Amazon should either hire more women or hire more gay men.

But there is also bisexuality, which makes the math hard. But bisexuality does help. If there are even numbers of male and female bisexuals, and those bisexuals are equally romantically and sexually attracted to both males and females (look, that's much less of a simplification than a spherical cow, so just go with me on this), then it actually helps a lot. Because it'll be easier for women who are bisexuals to date men and easier for men who are bisexuals to date men. And everyone will be saved from a culture of awkward dating by the bisexuals. But that requires a sufficiently large pool of bisexuals who lack gender preferences.

I am not going to go into people who are genderqueer, because then it gets very difficult to calculate things. Just assume some massless, frictionless people and that all genderqueer people end up with other genderqueer people (highly unrealistic) and then we can simplify it all to not mattering - reality be damned.

@14 "KTHX"?

Amazon certainly needs to own some serious blame and play a part in the fix, but girls are increasingly under-represented in STEM as they grow older, meaning that there simply are not as many qualified women total or proportionately for Amazon and other corporations to simply stop being "bad" so this problem goes away.

We need to address this at every level here, throughout the county, and to some extent world-wide, due to the large representation of H1Bs employed in the field.

It would be interesting to see the demographic information about the straight single lady population and compare it to the single male population. I assume that many of the new males arriving in Seattle are Indians with HB-1 visas. Are straight single Seattle ladies into these Indian guys? I mean, some of them surely would be, but a significant amount of them I suspect would not be? I am not sure.

@17- Are you saying that "straight single Seattle ladies" are racist? Because that's what it sounds like you're saying.

Not only that, but women in Seattle are pretty fugly by any standard.

"Aren't you assuming that all these Amazon male employees are straight?"

I'm sure Amazon's work environment creates a few bull queers.

@18

I don't think there is data out there that would show single ladies are racist. However, I am assuming that the straight single lady population is much more white than the single male population (due to Indian immigration trends). Do you think that these overwhelmingly white single ladies would prefer to date Indian immigrant men or native born men (of what ever ethnicity) at the same rate? I assume they prefer native born men. I need to see data.

@21 oh ok, you just think the straight single ladies select who to date on the basis of nationality, then. I guess that's about half a point less offensive than being called racist, so it's an improvement.

Did it ever occur to you that it might be the Indian men who aren't into white women? Or is that just too crazy a thought?

@28 That's probably true, statistically speaking. But don't you find it interesting that people often assume that white people would prefer not to date minorities? It's very rare to see a comment that assumes the reverse. Do people attribute more racism to white people, or do they just think that everyone would be happy to date a white person? I don't know which is more troublesome.