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Re:Women in tech - Stop talking, start coding by hugh3 on Monday April 19, 2010 @03:22PM (#1277592)
In the conditions under which humans evolved I'm pretty sure there was no such thing as "doing the laundry. I do concede, though, that I was overly facetious in describing what men do as "actual stuff".

Still, men and women are under greatly different selection pressures. Men place a greater emphasis on appearance when choosing their mates, women place a greater emphasis on power and status.

Perhaps this is because traditionally-female skills are such that there's not a great deal of benefit in being especially good at them. A man gains a small benefit from having as a wife the best basket-weaver in the tribe, but a woman and her children gain a huge benefit from having as a husband the tribe's chief or its best hunter.

Re:Women in tech - Stop talking, start coding by bct on Monday April 19, 2010 @06:32PM (#1278049)
> I do concede, though, that I was overly facetious in describing what men do as "actual stuff".

1. It's not funny. 2. People actually believe that (even if you don't). 3. That's the problem!