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Re:What Really Keeps Women Out of Tech by jkyle on Sunday October 11, 2015 @04:31PM (#10370832)
> Boy nerds get beaten up, girl nerds get ostracised.

The key is to make it a priority to move to an area where all the families promote a culture that views academic excellence as a good thing.

I know this isn't available to everyone due to financial limitations. But it's probably available to more than realize it.

Re:What Really Keeps Women Out of Tech by zamalek on Sunday October 11, 2015 @04:53PM (#10370961)
> academic excellence as a good thing.

That's not all that is required. By the time you get to where "real" academic excellence matters (college) you have already made a choice based on what you have been exposed to. I'm talking about exposing children to as many professions as possible with no pressure from their childhood peers to fit into the more archaic gender role.

However, that is a brilliant way to curb the really damaging bullying.

Re:What Really Keeps Women Out of Tech by saint_fiasco on Sunday October 11, 2015 @07:58PM (#10371723)
>The key is to make it a priority to move to an area where...

Plans that begin with that phrase are never sustainable. All sane people will want to move to the same places, rising prices substantially until people are forced to borrow huge amounts of money to buy houses in nice places, causing a housing bubble, causing a crash.

Re:What Really Keeps Women Out of Tech by ascorbic on Sunday October 11, 2015 @05:19PM (#10371104)
No need for a [sic]. That is how the rest of the English-speaking world spells it.
Re:What Really Keeps Women Out of Tech by jkyle on Sunday October 11, 2015 @05:20PM (#10371110)
good to know!