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Re:You don’t have a male or female brain by yucky on Saturday February 12, 2022 @04:51PM (#30316893)
>Rather, people tell kids what jobs are appropriate for men and women

Many of the earliest programmers were women, so this doesn't logically follow. There were examples for young women to go in that career from day one.

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Re:You don’t have a male or female brain by LevelAd8 on Sunday February 13, 2022 @08:22AM (#30321588)
Yes, but it didn't change because of the reasons given by the commenter above

https://www.history.com/news/coding-used-to-be-a-womans-job-...

I have female programmer colleagues and I see no difference in intelligence, between them and their male peers. It's just the number of woman in workforce is low, not that they can't do it successfully

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