Re:Friendship’s Dark Side
by PhasmaFelis on Monday April 23, 2018 @07:26PM
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> Maybe that's why hackers tend to not be very xenophobic, they have something to focus on other than dividing up the morning's pie.
There was a study (I don't have it handy, I'm afraid) showing that women were a much higher percentage of programmers in the earliest decades of computing, and those numbers fell swiftly and kept falling as the field became established and commercial.
That at least implies to me that women felt the pressure of an increasingly unwelcome environment in computing, as the field matured and expectations stratified.
Hackers, in my experience, are less xenophobic than many groups, but I wouldn't hold them up as a bastion of acceptance either.
There was a study (I don't have it handy, I'm afraid) showing that women were a much higher percentage of programmers in the earliest decades of computing, and those numbers fell swiftly and kept falling as the field became established and commercial.
That at least implies to me that women felt the pressure of an increasingly unwelcome environment in computing, as the field matured and expectations stratified.
Hackers, in my experience, are less xenophobic than many groups, but I wouldn't hold them up as a bastion of acceptance either.