On Monday, 17 March 2014 at 23:02:13 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
People see that software development is predominately male, and they assume "Oh, it *MUST* be because those EVIL, SEXIST men are TRYING to keep women out!" That genuinely pisses me off, what the hell is this, 1920? When people actually *wanted* to
As a student I taught introductory courses in programming. There was a reasonable number of females because they needed the course for biology etc. I think the programming talent was fairly evenly distributed. But your average female student value belonging to a group of other females so when the ratio fall below a threshold only the determined, tomboyish, selfconfident or very smart females will persist. And my impression is that they tend to gravitate either towards the social side of IT or towards the mathematical side, but fewer go for the "tinkering" fields?
Of course, among the males the "tinkerers" start out in their nerdy teens in social boyish groups. So they have a five year+ head start. Female teens will have problem accessing those groups if they don't have a nerdy big brother who is kind or a very nerdy dad… Are teenagers sexist? Of course…
rule against women. And yet somehow programming is allegedly full of women-hating men? Fucking crock of shit.
Yeah, but programming is full of awkward teenage boys who lock themselves up in their basements where the girls cannot find them. ;-)
