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Re:A Woman’s Story by RandallBrown on Thursday March 29, 2012 @05:18PM (#3773170)
Women in computing constantly feel like frauds.
Re:A Woman’s Story by RandallBrown on Friday March 30, 2012 @03:36AM (#3774882)
I'm not sure why I'm getting down voted. It's the truth. Most women are made to feel like they don't belong in computing. I convinced my girlfriend to major in Computer Science in school and she's constantly telling me how she faked her way through school. She feels like the only reason she got through it is because I helped her.

The reason she got through it is because she was smart. I didn't help her with her exams and I didn't help her land her job at Amazon. That was all her.

Cheryl Sandberg, the COO of Facebook gave a talk at the Grace Hopper conference about how she felt like a fraud. She wasn't as technical as the engineers so she didn't feel like she deserved her position. Turns out she's really good at her job.

Lots of women feel this way.

Re:A Woman’s Story by Jem on Friday March 30, 2012 @05:13AM (#3775085)
I'm not sure you're being down-voted either. I agree with you.