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> Typically that meant that women, minorities, and the poor couldn't learn programming and so never went into computer science. I understand that poorer people
by fiblye 14y ago
> Typically that meant that women, minorities, and the poor couldn't learn programming and so never went into computer science.
I understand that poorer people have no opportunity to learn programming and other less-immediately applicable topics outside of class, but I don't see what's stopping women from learning how to code. Most middle class people today spend their entire days on facebook--why is it "harder" for a woman to take some time to learn how her computer works when countless men begin learning in their late teens/early adult years?
- zedshaw 14y agoI think a big part of it is that there is a very strong hatred of intellectualism in the US, to the point that people who learned to use computers are called nerds and other vile things as well as abused and beaten for it. I think previously the potential of computers as a career wasn't strong enough to overcome this with many young kids, boys or girls, but more so girls.