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All true. It also doesn't explain why there are so few female programmers or engineers, given those fields offer much more than the academic payscale. Greenspu
by Agathos 19y ago
All true. It also doesn't explain why there are so few female programmers or engineers, given those fields offer much more than the academic payscale.
Greenspun's points are well worth thinking about (as a grad student, I ponder them frequently), but the rant is a complete non sequitur. It offers nothing to explain the gender difference.
- herdrick 19y agoHe suggests that young women have better perspective, plan more for the future, and don't consider themselves bulletproof like young men do.
- Agathos 19y agoHe does suggest it so I guess I shouldn't say he lost track of the point of the argument. But he certainly doesn't show it. If that were the difference, women would avoid academic humanities and biology jobs, which they don't. And they wouldn't avoid programming and engineering jobs, but they do.