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Because people who look different from people who are currently in the field they're interested in feel like they aren't welcome and won't pursue it. It's not
by batiudrami 8y ago
Because people who look different from people who are currently in the field they're interested in feel like they aren't welcome and won't pursue it.
It's not about this generation; it's the next.
- collyw 8y agoIs there any evidence of this? I hear it talked about a lot, but I have never seen anything that actually proves this is the case.
- batiudrami 8y agoYou might find this[1] interesting. [1]] https://medium.com/@CodeKingdoms/why-did-women-stop-coding-1019aac9727c https://medium.com/@CodeKingdoms/why-did-women-stop-coding-1...
- flukus 8y agoDo any image search of the homebrew computer club that established much of the scene from the mid 70's and tell me what gender ratio you see: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=chakra&q=homebrew+computer+club+photos&ia=images&iax=images https://duckduckgo.com/?t=chakra&q=homebrew+computer+club+ph... It looks like advertisers in the 80's had a demographic they were marketing too, they didn't create one. That article start with the assumption that everyone studying a field is interested in it as opposed to wanting a career and goes downhill from there.
- manigandham 8y agoSounds like a problem those people need to get over then and realize that "feeling welcome" isn't about what you or others look like. If it was then wouldn't homogenous groups be the most welcoming anyway? So these people should actually want complete segregation between race and gender? If this was really a problem, then every field that was slightly skewed would only trend towards the extremes but that hasn't happened. This constant need to balance groups without any understanding that people are different just comes across as nonsense.