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The problem of course, is that these assertions about genetic determinism are repeatedly shown to be absolute bullshit. To bring it back to the initial “Women
by jonathankoren 4y ago
The problem of course, is that these assertions about genetic determinism are repeatedly shown to be absolute bullshit.
To bring it back to the initial “Women don’t want to code, because they’re genetically repulsed by it” argument, whe know this isn’t true, because it changed in living memory.
https://www.npr.org/2022/12/07/1141358586/women-coders-programming-computer-science https://www.npr.org/2022/12/07/1141358586/women-coders-progr...
- throwaway12245 4y ago>genetic determinism are repeatedly shown to be absolute bullshit There is a lot of data that says genes determine various phenotypes: https://www.gwascentral.org/ https://www.gwascentral.org/
- TuringTest 4y agoYour assertion, while true, is irrelevant to the topic of human behaviour that we're discussing.
- catiopatio 4y agoStories like these are a prime example of grossly irresponsible historical revisionism born out of either ignorance and/or unethical expedience, unilaterally redefining “key punch operator” to be what we now call a “programmer”.
- TuringTest 4y agoRedefining what female programmers of the first computers as 'key punch operators' is revisionism. Those women engineered novel software systems to fit the given specifications, fixed bugs, invented the term 'bug', designed usable programming languages, and even invented the methodology of software validation that took men to the moon. Simply put, women created the pragmatic discipline of software engineering before male mathematicians and physicists devoted much thought to it, as it was deemed an activity accessory to hardware design. The profession was then taken over by men when it became prestigious, not in a small part because of all this. None of this cultural change was caused by genetic determinism.