So now that I have at least SOME people's attention on the gender thing, I'm wondering if I can engage those of you who are dads ... or uncles ... or influential adults. One of my employees said that she was strongly influenced into computer science by her parents. There's no reason to limit that to moms. I bet that the dads are equally baffled about why their daughters might not be interested in computer science. So let's get the dads involved.
What can you do? This is a smart group of people. Can we brainstorm a bit? Women tend to view this as "our problem", but why? We don't have all of the answers, just because we're women. And face it. If ALL of the women developers worked to impact their daughters' decisions of a profession, we STILL wouldn't make a very big dent. You GUYS, OTOH, ... you have NUMBERS in your favor! I think that if we want to increase the number of girls in CS (and other math/science), you're our best hope. BTW, this idea of getting the dads to influence their daughters was one of my employee's. She said that she was strongly influenced by her parents, and brought up the fact that DADS are the ones that can make the difference in a male-dominated profession. Turns out her mom is a software developer (and only 2 years older than me, but that makes me wince, so we don't usually talk about that). So ... any chance you guys want to brainstorm a bit on how we might be able to influence a 50/50 gender mix at the [Java?] Posse Roundup 2025? ;-) Dianne Robert Fischer wrote: > It's not just baffling to you. Women not being attracted to science, math, > and software development > has been a huge issue since people started paying attention. But despite > huge amounts of money > being thrown at the problem and all kinds of systems intended to > support/encourage women in that > direction, general adoption remains low. Why that's the case is baffling to > everyone, and people's > answers to those questions tend to have less to do with evidence and more to > do with people's > pre-conceived paradigm on gender issues. > > ~~ Robert. > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
