&gt;It just means, for example, that it probably would have been even harder if you were an Eastern European woman who grew up in a poor family.<p>Women here get hired easier (because US companies have the same policy for quotas, Intel is notorious for this), I know women who got an internship purely because they were women, there are free bootcamps and classes targeting women... not to mention all these special programs EU has for women who want to start their own company (and yes, these programs are for women exclusively). I have yet to see a program or class targeted specifically for men.<p>So exactly what disadvantages are you talking about?