Teaching how to code is broken

Re:Teaching how to code is broken by andrewzah on Friday January 14, 2022 @02:18PM (#29938999)

Sitting at a computer for 10 hours a day isn't a gendered thing.

There is nothing about computer science or programming that is gender specific. It, ideally, should sit around 50-50, ±5%. So yes, it is a problem that it so heavily skews male.

As to why, it's multi-faceted cultural issue, with how our society treats boys and girls starting from birth. In other words, a pipeline issue.

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Re:Teaching how to code is broken by hackinthebochs on Friday January 14, 2022 @04:48PM (#29940919)

It is not clear that interest in extended computer use isn't gendered. For example: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pmc/articles/PMC3166361/

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Re:Teaching how to code is broken by throw_m239339 on Friday January 14, 2022 @02:21PM (#29939047)

I never said or implied that programming was sexed, I told the parent that just because they are fewer female developers doesn't mean the sex imbalance is the same or even skewed heavily toward males in every STEM discipline.

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Re:Teaching how to code is broken by nottorp on Saturday January 15, 2022 @05:24AM (#29945296)

> Sitting at a computer for 10 hours a day isn't a gendered thing.

Except the 10 hour a day part :) I believe the tendency to overwork is mostly a male thing.

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