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"The result? Twenty three of the 51 students in our current batch are female, and Hacker School is much better for it." Though I applaud HS's initiative and Et
by Jun8 14y ago
"The result? Twenty three of the 51 students in our current batch are female, and Hacker School is much better for it."
Though I applaud HS's initiative and Etsy's sponsorship, it would've been nice to outline why HS is "much better" now that half the students are female.
- nicholasjbs 14y agoI started writing about the benefits (and challenges) of having many more women in the batch (while simultaneously growing by 2.5x), but I felt the post was already way too long. I hope to write a separate post on the subject before too long (maybe in September, after this batch ends and I have a bit more time).
- wavesounds 14y agoNPR recently had a great report[1] on women in the sciences they said "When women were reminded — even subtly — of the stereotype that men were better than women at math, the performance of women in math tests measurably declined" so one might think that this living expense would reinforce that stereotype, however they concluded that "In order to boost the numbers of women who choose to go into those fields, you have to boost the number of women who are in those fields." Which is exactly what this stipend will do and hopefully that positive will out way any perceived negative. I think its a great experiment and you might want to reach out to the researchers in this report to see if they would be interested in what you're doing. [1] http://www.npr.org/2012/07/12/156664337/stereotype-threat-why-women-quit-science-jobs http://www.npr.org/2012/07/12/156664337/stereotype-threat-wh...