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Re:Women: Learn to Program This Summer by Grustaf on Friday March 22, 2019 @06:33PM (#19467588)
Also, since medicine is so much more prestiguous than programming, and probably at least as well paid, why do you even want women to go into programming? Why not let ambitious women study medicine, law and whatever else they do, and be rich and happy?
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Re:Women: Learn to Program This Summer by jrs95 on Friday March 22, 2019 @09:07PM (#19468393)
Because any male dominated space is seen as a threat and must be eliminated, even if men initially gravitated into that space partly due to social rejection outside of it.
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Re:Women: Learn to Program This Summer by black-tea on Saturday March 23, 2019 @05:13AM (#19469708)
It's sad how far down you have to go to find the truth in these comments, even if it's only for a moment while the drones downvote it out of visibility.
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