What Really Keeps Women Out of Tech

Re:What Really Keeps Women Out of Tech by seansmccullough on Sunday October 11, 2015 @10:45PM (#10372244)

The real issue is that our society tells girls it's more important to be attractive and have lots of friends, instead of being smart and intelligent.

The posters aren't the problem, the pipeline is, and the pipeline starts with parents.

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Re:What Really Keeps Women Out of Tech by astrange on Monday October 12, 2015 @03:45AM (#10373073)

Are you sure being attractive and having lots of friends isn't a better life strategy than being really intelligent? It gets you laid way more often.

(Not that either of those are strategies really.)

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Re:What Really Keeps Women Out of Tech by seansmccullough on Sunday October 11, 2015 @10:56PM (#10372267)

And America's general anti-intellectual culture. Basically, the idea that it's not "cool" to be smart. Also, society generally socialized boys to be more independent (hence making it easier to ignore anti-intellectualism).

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Re:What Really Keeps Women Out of Tech by solofounder2 on Sunday October 11, 2015 @11:16PM (#10372329)

but then individuals like Amelia Earhart, Jane Goodall, and Maria Mayer (to name a few) come along and inspire a generation of young women. Maybe the problem is that we simply don't have a worldwide recognized women's role model for Tech yet. Hell there are only a handful of male ones.. people like Gates, Jobs & Wozniacki, Zukerberg, Knuth, Kay, Turing, etc.. inventors of programming languages, famous tech authors (W. Richard Stevens, Sussman & Abelson, etc).. they're pretty much all men. I think that eventually this will change.

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