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White males were the most encouraged demographic to go into tech when their age group was young. The fact that there are a lot more white males in that group ju
by jbhatab 12y ago
White males were the most encouraged demographic to go into tech when their age group was young. The fact that there are a lot more white males in that group just demonstrates what society was like in the past.
If I was throwing a convention, I would want the best and the brightest 30+ year olds for wisdom/experience reasons. And since everyone agrees that males dominated the space in the last 15 years, why would it even make sense for there to be a higher percentage of females presenting?
Should we punish these brilliant people (it's quite the collection of intelligence) because they were born in a certain era? I mean we could, but that would just bring us in another equally bad direction.
- IndianAstronaut 12y ago>most encouraged demographic I used to mentor college students in a biology lab. I tried to get the students to learn basic programming and data analysis for biological data. All but one of the girls turned down the opportunity. All the males at least tried it out, some got very deep into programming.
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