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Re:As a Woman in Tech, I Realized: These Are Not My People by needless2 on Thursday August 10, 2017 @06:34PM (#14984985)
>like a few WNBA players might be able to give NBA players a tough challenge

this is not true at all. Maybe a WNBA could score a few points here and there. But even the worst NBA player is better than the best WNBA because of the biological difference between men and women. The women's national hockey team and soccer team scrimmage regularly against 16 boys and get beat by those boys. The difference is magnitude when a full grown man actually did scrimmage against them.

But to relate to the central topic, the biological difference between men and women in programming is insignificant.

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Re:As a Woman in Tech, I Realized: These Are Not My People by danso on Thursday August 10, 2017 @07:26PM (#14985307)
I meant a challenge, relative to the general population, though that's a pretty meaningless assertion. But yes, my larger point was to say that presuming the gender gap in programming to be based on biological differences seems premature, given that computer science actually has female equivalents to Jerry West and Steph Curry.
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