It's fantastic that this article has stayed on the front page so long. Regardless of your thoughts on the author's claims, I don't think anyone can deny that th

It's fantastic that this article has stayed on the front page so long. Regardless of your thoughts on the author's claims, I don't think anyone can deny that this was a thoughtful, reasoned take on sexism in tech. We need more of these if anyone wants to take the discussion back from the Gawker's/Valleywag's of the world. There is an intelligent discussion to be had here. Personally, I lean towards advising women to take the Booker T. Washington approach of focusing on becoming as competent as you possibly can, but also working to change the culture as much as possible. I know it sounds like a contradiction, but I just think that teaching girls and women to learn to love programming over encouraging them to fight a culture war will bring more women into tech than the opposite, which will bring more into activism (not a bad thing, but I am approaching this with a goal bringing women into tech). I found this author's approach to be one of the best attempts at what I described I've ever seen.