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Re:Women: Learn to Program This Summer by mpweiher on Friday March 22, 2019 @04:48PM (#19466782)
> "tech is behind medicine's adoption curve with resepect to gender inclusion"

This is a testable hypothesis and wrong. Women's participation in CS is dropping, so it absolutely is not the same curve, just a little behind.

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Re:Women: Learn to Program This Summer by dragonwriter on Friday March 22, 2019 @04:51PM (#19466809)
> > "tech is behind medicine's adoption curve with resepect to gender inclusion"

> This is a testable hypothesis and wrong. Women's participation in CS is dropping, so it absolutely is not the same curve, just a little behind.

Women's inclusion dropped in medicine between the late 19th and mid 20th centuries, and came up after that, IIRC, so it could well be the same curve just 100 years or so behind.

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Re:Women: Learn to Program This Summer by mpweiher on Friday March 22, 2019 @05:49PM (#19467313)
Hmm...do you have evidence for that?

Looking at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_medicine#History seems to say quite the opposite.

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