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Maybe her concerns are shared amongst a majority of her female peers - thus leading to women either not wanting to join the field or leaving shortly after enter
by deaps 7y ago
Maybe her concerns are shared amongst a majority of her female peers - thus leading to women either not wanting to join the field or leaving shortly after entering it.
I mean men and women are different. We tend to excel at different things, have different thought processes, process things differently, different strengths and weaknesses (generally, right? - there is obviously overlap).
Maybe her complaints help explain the lack of women in the field.
- nkrisc 7y ago> We tend to excel at different things, have different thought processes, process things differently, different strengths and weaknesses (generally, right? - there is obviously overlap). This could also be said of all individuals, sex aside. Either way, I don't buy it. Nurses tend to mostly be women and yet the job is far harder than any software development job. It's more grueling hours, physically demanding, and mentally challenging. I think it's absurd to suggest that women as a whole can't handle the hours and demands of software development.
- dqv 7y agoBut being a nurse is more social than software is. And that aligns with what we know about the differences between where women tend to excel and where men tend to excel.[1] And of course you can then argue that parts of software are more social and my argument would be that there are more women in those parts of software. [1] https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/rabble-rouser/201707/why-brilliant-girls-tend-favor-non-stem-careers https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/rabble-rouser/201707...
- deaps 7y ago> I think it's absurd to suggest that women as a whole can't handle the hours and demands of software development. I didn't suggest that at all.
- viklove 7y agoI don't even see the word "hours" in the comment you're replying to... Got a bit of a chip on your shoulder?