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I feel bad for the female children of HN. I imagine them thinking, "Why do all the adults in my life want me to be a computer programmer? I want to be a veterin
by crassus 13y ago
I feel bad for the female children of HN. I imagine them thinking, "Why do all the adults in my life want me to be a computer programmer? I want to be a veterinarian or teacher, but daddy says that's a patriarchal stereotype."
There's nothing wrong with offering people an easier onramp to hackerdom, of course. But there is a subtext of devaluing all female-dominated lines of work.
- theorique 13y agoAn earlier comment mentioned that all the different professional programs (law, medicine, business, etc) that lead to top, well-paid jobs, are competing over the same top-5% elite group of girls/women. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6981040 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6981040 Adding CS/CE to this mix won't necessarily solve things. Improving the pipeline is a reasonable step, but it takes time for the effects of those efforts to be realized.
- MartinCron 13y agoYou should feel bad for anyone who gets pushed into any career they don't really love. I strongly doubt it's at epidemic levels for the daughters of HN. I'm not applying any pressure at all to my daughter, I'm telling her she can practice any kind of medicine she wants.
- josephagoss 13y ago> I'm telling her she can practice any kind of medicine she wants. This gave me a much needed laugh.