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"... Unlike men, women pay attention to detail and tend to get the job done ..." 1) Highly generalized statement. 2) Demonstrably untrue -- computer science re
by sabat 16y ago
"... Unlike men, women pay attention to detail and tend to get the job done ..."
1) Highly generalized statement. 2) Demonstrably untrue -- computer science requires attention to detail, and save for Lady Lovelace, the biggest contributors to this field have always been men.
But why bother getting into gender at all, especially if you're going to just trot out generalizations? "Men are X, women are Z" is so 3rd grade. People are individuals, affected but not controlled by their gender.
- wlievens 16y agoYou forgot about Grace Hopper http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper
- sabat 16y agoSure, and Adele Goldberg (Smalltalk) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adele_Goldberg_%28computer_scientist%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adele_Goldberg_%28computer_scie... helped OOP really evolve. Women have had serious influence on computer science since the very beginning.