Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo
by purpleostrich on Monday August 21, 2017 @12:02AM
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It's hard to say. I'd say any natural interest I had in science was ignored or actively suppressed by my family. I think it's no accident that I did not embrace computers until after I was a financially independent adult.
If my family had encouraged me and others like me earlier, the numbers of us surely would've been larger.
>There just aren't that many of us
That was my point really - female geeks/nerds existed back in the day before tech was cool.
It's just the natural level of interest (NOT ability) seemed to be more like 10% rather than 50%.