Japan needs a lot more tech workers. Can it find a place for women?

Re:Japan needs a lot more tech workers. Can it find a place ... by goldwind1111 on Thursday September 02, 2021 @05:24PM (#28397547)

I wonder if teachers in Japan really discourage girls from learning about computer science and other things like that.

If so, that is crazy. I think there should be an issue with that. I guess it will be interesting to imagine Japan as a women-oriented society.

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Re:Japan needs a lot more tech workers. Can it find a place ... by prestigious on Thursday September 02, 2021 @05:25PM (#28397563)

I think women in general are less interested in tech. Actually the most oppressive cultures have highest number of women in tech

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Re:Japan needs a lot more tech workers. Can it find a place ... by perl4ever on Thursday September 02, 2021 @05:51PM (#28397829)

> the most oppressive cultures have highest number of women in tech

Like the US in the 1950s.

It's not a matter of interest, it's that it has actually been the case that women are locked out of many high paying prestigious jobs, and software is/was the best available, where it isn't so prestigious.

There was a time when women simply could not get an engineering degree. And so, someone might study math, and end up as a programmer whose job title was "engineering assistant" to a male engineer.

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