> Exactly: it isn't the case now, but it was the case before. Why is that? I don't know; but I do know it's been like that way before the recent fuss about wom

> Exactly: it isn't the case now, but it was the case before. Why is that? I don't know; but I do know it's been like that way before the recent fuss about women in tech got started. > To the extent that there is a "right" approach .. what each individual child is interested in. Practically speaking then, do you think we would improve the situation in tech if we told everyone who's organizing these events which do explicitly mention gender to stop doing so? From an idealistic perspective I'm also against women-only events and would prefer them to be perfectly inclusive. In practice that's a very hard thing to achieve though and if supplanting existing classes with predominantly boys with an explicit girls-only class helps to get some of these girls interested in tech then I'm not one to rain on their parade.