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> Today the culprit is an amicable looking Indian girl I’ve seen from class. Student not recognizing another student? A minority in the space trying to help a

> Today the culprit is an amicable looking Indian girl I’ve seen from class. Student not recognizing another student? A minority in the space trying to help another minority in the space? I wouldn't be able to draw too many useful conclusions from that. >Being a woman of color who has graduated CS107 is almost like being a unicorn, and that’s pretty f'd up. Yes, but it's also entirely consistent with the last 200 years of western history. In the end, yes, I can entirely imagine this happening, and understand why it's happening, and see that it's not going to change any time soon. That said, I hope it changes sooner than later and lovely little slice-of-life articles will help that happen. edit: It also makes me kinda sad too.

TheGRS 11y ago
For sure, and I don't believe the problem is very well known right now either. Many female friends I've talked to had no idea that software engineering was such a white male dominated space. I personally think its in a rut right now. Both college students and working professionals will look at the space as being male dominated and passively choose to go a different direction if they are female. When the problem gets brought up in circles like HN, many rush to defend the space as if nothing is wrong. A cultural shift needs to happen and unfortunately that is going to be extremely difficult to do without a lot of people interested in making it happen. Why do CS when you can just as easily get into other fields that are more accepting of women and minorities?