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Are women actually being driven out of the tech community or are all these articles I read about discrimination against women in tech just a vocal minority? I
by deadghost 13y ago
Are women actually being driven out of the tech community or are all these articles I read about discrimination against women in tech just a vocal minority?
I also don't get the feminist push for more female programmers, scientists, etc. You mean you WANT your kind to sit in isolation for long periods of time, day in and day out, for years at a time? To me, it's something you fall into like drug and alcohol abuse, but more positive.
Online, no one knows you're a dog.
- burntsushi 13y agoUmm, did you read the OP? Also, programming is like drug and alcohol abuse? What?
- sp332 13y agoProgramming isn't necessarily isolated. This article is all about finding the tech community to be more welcoming than "normal" communities. Edit: Discrimination in tech seems to be done by a minority, but those few run into a lot of women at conferences etc. Much more discrimination is done outside the tech community, by people who don't tell girls that they can pursue tech.
- sethish 13y agoYes, in my assessment, and in the assessment of female developers I have spoken with, women are being driven out of the tech community. Why do you think that it is a vocal minority?
- briantrice 13y agoI agree. I think the original perception is rooted in a context-free understanding of the present. That is, they lack mature awareness of the period during which women were driven out, only perceiving the status quo after that period.
- benched 13y agoWhat is 'the' tech community? I've been a programmer for 25 years, and I'm honestly unfamiliar with it. Does Microsoft count as a tech community? If you go there, you will find tons of women developers doing great work, and it doesn't seem they're being pushed out of anything. Pushed into bigger houses, more like! Anyway, shame on this putative community you speak of.
- laura2013 13y agolol, that's like saying "i dont get why gays wanna marry, marriage is awful and taxes are crazy", or "blacks shouldn't want to vote, our government is crooked"