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Rails Girls
Nice initiative to get more girls (and women) involved in web development.
- jamesbritt 16y ago"There aren’t enough women in software development so I hope this kind of thing spreads beyond Helsinki!" I'm thinking that if you want to attract women, you should refer to them as "women", not "girls."
- pohl 16y agoIf you attract girls to the field then eventually you'll have women in the field. Just look at me: I was attracted to the field as a boy. Now, I am a man.
- jamesbritt 16y ago"Just look at me: I was attracted to the field as a boy. Now, I am a man." But were you attracted to the field because it was presented as an activity for boys?
- pohl 16y agoIs whether or not I was as pertinent as whether or not I might have been - because I may have been. You might also ask (as the proper counterpart to your advocacy for using "women") whether I might have been had it been presented as an activity for men. Probably not, because I didn't identify as a man when I was a boy. All I'm saying is that there's no reason to be hypersensitive about using the word "girls" if your target audience actually includes them. Is there a reason to believe that they were using the word "girls" but excessively trying to appeal to women? I took the unicorn and the kitty as a dead giveaway, myself.
- drinian 16y agoI do remember a pretty good computing column in Boys Life magazine, actually.
- spicerunner 16y agoTrue...I must be getting old.