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If a young woman has equal potential as a future doctor or computer scientist, then sure, it's zero-sum whether she picks one versus the other. The problem is,
by raldi 11y ago
If a young woman has equal potential as a future doctor or computer scientist, then sure, it's zero-sum whether she picks one versus the other.
The problem is, there are undoubtedly a large number of young women out there who have the potential to become great programmers and love their careers, but for whatever reason, they're ending up becoming average doctors instead and feeling just so-so about their career choice.
In the latter case, it's better for both the women in question, and society in general, to support their becoming computer scientists.
- _dark_matter_ 11y agoOr, more likely, they might finish their degree but not do well enough to go to Med School anyways, resulting in a different career path altogether.
- saulrh 11y agoMy SO is one of the women who are better off because they got through a CS degree instead of an alternate. She could have been a good molecular biologist or teacher, but she's a spectacular software engineer, especially for those high-level business-use/architectural tasks that a lot of devs can't handle. She'd be a lot less happy right now if her dad had managed to succeed in convincing her that girls can't program.