Women in Software?
After writing this last week, I stumbled on misbehaving.net talking about a programmer gathering - and explaining pretty clearly why so many women stay away from the field...
After writing this last week, I stumbled on misbehaving.net talking about a programmer gathering - and explaining pretty clearly why so many women stay away from the field...
Comments
Men are jerks in general
[Shane King] April 17, 2004 21:41:28.617
Since there are a good number of male jerks in any field who treat women as mobile breasts and vaginas, I don't see how this keeps women out of software. You could construct this argument for practically any field that has traditionally been male dominated. I think you need to look at other factors to really understand the issue.