Re:Romanian Hackers Infiltrated 65% of DC Outdoor Surveillan...
by rdtsc on Thursday December 21, 2017 @03:15AM
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> There's no expectation that if you're a girl you must suck at math (or science/engineering in general),
When I was going to school girls were usually better at math. I remember getting help from them with some calculus problems.
My CS teacher in high school was a woman as well and before teaching she worked as a programmer. She was a great role model for girls I'd imagine. Well she was a great role model for me too because she was a great teacher.
Re:Romanian Hackers Infiltrated 65% of DC Outdoor Surveillan...
by simion314 on Thursday December 21, 2017 @03:05AM
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At my University in Timisoara Romania, in my class in pure Mathematics 75% were women, I think the men were attracted more to the computer engineering at the other university but I do not have numbers, anyway girls still loved Math when I was at university 15 years ago
The thing is - positive discrimination doesn't solve the problem, because it comes from school. You need to encourage girls to take science classes - it has to be expected of them that they do so (rather than go towards, e.g., humanities). That, I don't think is actively happening in the US or even some parts of western europe.... by the time you're dealing with graduates, it's already too late to fix the gender-imbalance problem.
[1] My little daughter's godfathers are German (she grew up in Romania, but he didn't). She told me that among german women, it's a thing of pride to be bad at math. And that her daughter was praised in school that "you're pretty good, for a girl". With that sort of attitudes during childhood... it's bound to be hard to get gender balance later (that "praise" would be perceived as insult here)