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I agree with a lot of your points. But I feel compelled to respond. > Coding is a form of communication Yes, but it's also so much more than this. Not everyon

I agree with a lot of your points. But I feel compelled to respond. > Coding is a form of communication Yes, but it's also so much more than this. Not everyone is capable of the mental gymnastics or visualisation required to be a good software engineer, and that's okay. > Because of economic opportunity... While there are a ton of practical reasons to do things in life, if you don't love algorithms and data structures (at some level), programming will ultimately be a chore. That being said, I agree that learning to write code is empowering, and everyone should learn to do it. But that's different from working as a software engineer. You might enjoy this talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imV3pPIUy1k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imV3pPIUy1k

dzink 8y ago
True, and the mental gymnastics in Law, Surgery, and a number of other fields are also hard, if not harder, but they still attract =>50% women these days. Maybe we could draw some of these women by showing the broader purpose behind coding as a challenge worthy of a career. Working as a software engineer is an undersell. You could be a founder of a tech company, a researcher in AI tool that finds cancer better than Radiologists.