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Is 'diversity' selfish? Perhaps women/teenage girls aren't interested in becoming programmers, because they don't find it to be an interesting or fulfilling car
by srssays 10y ago
Is 'diversity' selfish? Perhaps women/teenage girls aren't interested in becoming programmers, because they don't find it to be an interesting or fulfilling career.
- ArkyBeagle 10y agoAs anecdata, one daughter felt that pursuing computing wasn't socially acceptable ( she was a cheerleader and all ) and another felt the first instructor was an abject misogynist. Perhaps women find better things to do :) I'm starting to think there is something wrong with those of us who pursue this.
- facepalm 10y agoDo people typically enter the field via an instructor/lessons?
- ArkyBeagle 10y agoYou have me at a loss- I'd say there are certainly alternatives. If I had to guess, I'd say most go that way, but that's purely a guess. Good point though - neither of them tried to self-learn in high school.
- zigzigzag 10y agoAnd was it men who made your daughter feel like computing wasn't socially acceptable? Or was it her female friends in the cheerleading squad?
- ArkyBeagle 10y agoYes. And it was her, her ... calculus of status.
- skookumchuck 10y agoFor another anecdata, when I grew up being into computers meant social rejection, from boys as well as girls. I still recall meeting women in nightclubs and when they ask what I do, I say programming, they shrink and look away. I learned to hide what I did for a living during initial encounters.
- ArkyBeagle 10y agoI solved that problem by getting married in my musician phase :)
- kybernetikos 10y ago> they don't find it to be an interesting or fulfilling career. Even if true, the reasons for it might be interesting.