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Re:In China, Women Hired to Motivate Computer Programmers by dragonwriter on Friday August 21, 2015 @09:50AM (#10097407)
> Many SV startups display a website with 50% women programmers... all of them cute and young.

And 50% male programmers, also cute and young.

> We know very well they're not here to attract more women to programming.

You could interpret the cute/young males as aspirational images for males, and the cute/young women as bait for (presumably, heterosexual) males...

Or you could interpret both groups as bait for males of differing sexualities.

Or you could interpret the cute young males as bait for heterosexual females and the cute young females as aspirational images for females.

Or you could interpret all the images as aspirational.

Or...

"We know very well they're not here to attract more women..." of any of the images, including the cute/young females, requires some support.

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