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Re:My Experiences as a Female Software Engineer by dennisgorelik on Monday January 17, 2011 @05:08PM (#2113679)
1) Would our own experience in school serve as a good confirmation that discussions and competitiveness are not really promoted in schools?

2) Women are not bad at abstractions. They are just not interested in dealing with abstractions as much as men do. That explains why there are so few women in software development.

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Re:My Experiences as a Female Software Engineer by btilly on Monday January 17, 2011 @06:30PM (#2113884)
My personal experience is not consistent with #1.

My personal experience of women who choose to go on in advanced mathematics (of which there are almost as many as there are men) is strongly at odds with your claim #2.

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