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Until and unless society truly has equal rights/opportunity/recognition, it behooves us to fete those who do the very hard things, with an extra helping of over
by mrkstu 6y ago
Until and unless society truly has equal rights/opportunity/recognition, it behooves us to fete those who do the very hard things, with an extra helping of overcoming institutional/societal barriers due to their inherent characteristics.
It gives hope to those who fear that those barriers are so large as to be insurmountable and without which many of those would choose not to try.
- globular-toast 6y agoSaying we don't have equal rights is a serious claim and one that would need backing up. As for equal opportunity and recognition, I would say it's often skewed in favour of women right now. A woman can find a job in tech quite easily because, for some reason, companies want to hire women. That's not equality. Recognition is also higher for women. Women don't have to be first or best to get recognised, they just have to be the first or best woman. There's no such thing as "first man". It's often repeated that the first programmer was a woman. OK, so who was the first male programmer? Nobody knows or cares.