Re:A female engineer's opinion on why there are fewer women ...
by taurath on Wednesday May 09, 2018 @04:24PM
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Big difference to me is how does the core work get done. If it’s like coding where you need zero distraction time and actively have to turn off socially, it becomes less appealing. As a former PM turned dev, the difference is striking in how isolated the work can require you do be.
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Re:A female engineer's opinion on why there are fewer women ...
by tptacek on Wednesday May 09, 2018 @04:36PM
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I believe this. The problem is, it's not unique to CS (it might be unique to knowledge work, but CS is far from the only species of knowledge work). So for it to have demographic explanatory power, it would have to account for the intense solitary concentration required for elite research in other STEM fields --- including fields like math, which are very closely related to CS, and the multitude of random STEM fields which have been taken over by computational approaches where the underlying work is really just domain-specialized programming by another name.