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>"Less interest" along gender lines sounds like a good explanation And then you have to ask, what makes the gender less interested in the topic? A lot of the
by dethstar 11y ago
>"Less interest" along gender lines sounds like a good explanation
And then you have to ask, what makes the gender less interested in the topic?
A lot of the time people think this is just throwing gifts to people from certain demographic to compensate for their disadvantages, but it is a tactic to attract more people.
Some girls participate at certain event and get recognition and then you get other girls to say "oh! I could do that too!"
Word get out that a bunch of women/black/latin@ got into Recurse center after being granted sponsorships and you get more women/black/latin@ applying to more places like it around the world.
- ElComradio 11y ago> And then you have to ask, what makes the gender less interested in the topic? There is an implied assumption that there is a moral duty to help get more women in to CS. I have yet to hear a reason for this that does not reduce to "Just because". (e.g. the notion that in ideal, fair world, programming jobs would be split 50/50, which is basically an article of faith, opinion.)
- dethstar 11y agoI don't think there's a moral duty to do so, but neither do I see how doing so hurts/is wrong. You're only opening tech space to people that might be as or more talented that people already in the pool, but that might be lost because they were never told "you can actually do this".