Re:Being a “dumb” girl in Computer Science
by anouk_anca on Tuesday April 05, 2016 @05:30AM
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> Nobody told me it was supposed to be hard or supposed to be for boys or whatever.
This is an ideal situation, but sadly not what many women experience, myself included. Role models are necessary because these negative gender stereotypes are real and need to be explicitly countered, ignoring them and simply focusing on gender-blind education is not enough IMO.
This is an ideal situation, but sadly not what many women experience, myself included. Role models are necessary because these negative gender stereotypes are real and need to be explicitly countered, ignoring them and simply focusing on gender-blind education is not enough IMO.