@shanelja Can I suggest that you dial-back the anger a bit, both in this comment and your reply to EliRivers. This isn't really the right forum for it. jtchang

@shanelja Can I suggest that you dial-back the anger a bit, both in this comment and your reply to EliRivers. This isn't really the right forum for it. jtchang wasn't making what you characterise as a 'campaign point' or politically motivated 'feminist propaganda', He was just expressing optimism that increasing childhood exposure to technology will result in a more equal gender mix within the tech sector. Thats all. The author of the article is clearly a woman. Roughly half of the children that she talked to will have been female. It is well documented that ideas about traditional gender norms, along with other social factors, have historically discouraged women and girls from pursuing education and careers in technology. jtchang is entitled to make a wider related point here that links gender with the use of technology in education to speculate about a future where this may change - even if that wasn't the aim of the article or its author. Thats all he was doing, and HN is a place where he should be able to do it.