I haven't read the article, but from your comment it doesn't seem dnautics misunderstood anything.

> The women are responding to an essay about why women don't want to code. As women who do want to code they're exactly the right people to ask.

How are they "exactly the right people to ask"? They're the exact opposite! Can you see the backwards logic in your comment? If you want to know why someone's doing or not doing something, ask them, not the people who chose opposite.

The original essay that the article is a response to states "Women don't want to code." This article is about how that hypothesis is wrong. It proves that it's wrong by talking to women who do want to code, thereby demonstrating the original essay is incorrect.

You couldn't prove such a hypothesis wrong by talking to women who don't want to code.

The original essay states that some women want to code, but only enough to make up 20% of the CS workforce, and that the author believes this isn't a result of discrimination. You can't disprove that hypothesis by talking to women who do want to code.

The argument at hand is if the 20% representation level is a result of discrimination and bias in the field, or something else.

The original essay made a statistical claim, that most women don't want to code, ie. that 80/20 is a natural gender equilibrium of those actually interested in CS. It was not universal claim that no women want to code. Therefore this article is not a rebuttal.

They’re the perfect women to ask why they chose to code. Because obviously their reasons not to code weren’t enough to stop them so presumambly not too strong.

If you want to get more women to code, asking the ones who already cide why they code doesn’t seem as useful as asking the ones that don’t why they don’t.

Which is exactly what I said... These women can say why they do code. They have no good reason or explanation on why women wouldn’t code. If they had one they’d have another job.

Yes agreed, they are the perfect people to ask why they do — but bad people to ask why others don’t. I’m just saying that imho to get more people you need to ask a lot of the people who don’t why not and not just the people that do why they do.

That’s literally what I said. That they’re good to explain why they code, not so much to explain why other women don’t. So the article is great to justify the passion for coding you already have.

I’d rather see some explanations from women who chose not to code. That helps with understanding where the blockage is.

Something must have been lost in translation...