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The success of outreach programs prove your “Women just weren't interested enough to put CS in their application forms for college.” wrong. Unless women changed
by hynek 14y ago
The success of outreach programs prove your “Women just weren't interested enough to put CS in their application forms for college.” wrong. Unless women changed significantly since the mid-nineties which I doubt.
- batista 14y ago>The success of outreach programs prove your “Women just weren't interested enough to put CS in their application forms for college.” wrong. Actually it reinforces my point. If it took "outreach programs" to make them take interest doesn't it mean that they _weren't_ interested enough in CS in the first place?
- hynek 14y agoYou could put it that way. The point here is that the threshold of interest needed to apply is much higher for women than for men. These barriers are real but you, as a man, can’t really judge that because you hadn’t to cope with them. You could only try to talk to women (stress is on plural) and try to empathize.
- lolcatstevens 14y ago"If it took "outreach programs" to make them take interest doesn't it mean that they _weren't_ interested enough in CS in the first place?" Why do you think that is? The money isn't good enough? The life and hours of a developer aren't good enough? Women aren't capable of understanding programming? Step back, man. You read like yet another HN poster.