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While I agree that it's important to encourage and educate the young about technology, this article vastly over simplifies, dismisses, and actively works agains
by jaegerpicker 13y ago
While I agree that it's important to encourage and educate the young about technology, this article vastly over simplifies, dismisses, and actively works against those working for a positive change. What good will encouraging young girls if they grow up to try and work in an industry that actively dismisses them? That actively seeks to ignore them? No know has all the right answers but focusing only on education seems to miss about half the equation to me. It's a requirement and as father to a young daughter it's something I'm passionately interested in but I also want my industry to be somewhere that my daughter feels safe and comfortable working in. Educating the young won't fix that. Beyond that young people NEED role models to look up to, the only way to accomplish that is to fix the industry to be more fair and safe now.
- exstudent 13y agoThis is already happening to boys and girls. See my comment below. No one is encouraged to code. It's not a popular activity. Up until recently it was basically asking to be socially shunned. Some boys either didn't care or didn't have any other options. But the discouragement starts very early.