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Do girls look at Christina Li and see someone who looks weird (admission: I'm old so I have no idea if her personal style choice is fashionable), and does that
by balls187 11y ago
Do girls look at Christina Li and see someone who looks weird (admission: I'm old so I have no idea if her personal style choice is fashionable), and does that turn girls off from STEM?
Doctors and Lawyers look more professional, and perhaps that appeals more broadly to the women who would otherwise be qualified to go into tech?
- maxerickson 11y agoNo.
- balls187 11y agoThen why is "Maybe the lack of women in computer science comes from the stereotype of a male programmer hacking the government in his parents’ basement." relevant? Presumably because women don't want to be associated with "men who live in their parents basements." That's pretty similar to women don't want to be associated with "people who don't fit conventional stereotypes." Blatant sexism hasn't stopped women from achieving in other fields: medicine, law, business, so I wouldn't expect blatant sexism to stop women from achieving in computer science. Instead, I think that Computer Science doesn't have broad appeal the way other professional fields do.