Regarding selection, a lot of these selection decisions are made before people have any experience with actual real world IT. A mother who thinks that programm

Regarding selection, a lot of these selection decisions are made before people have any experience with actual real world IT. A mother who thinks that programming isn't something for her girls in high school does damage that no amount of work at making things friendlier later on can repair. I think it's counterproductive to associate selection exclusively or even strongly with IT culture specifically. It lets wider culture off the hook.