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Re:Etsy Wants to Give Female Programmers $5,000 to Attend Ha... by 1qaz2wsx3edc on Friday April 06, 2012 @04:15PM (#3808723)
Well, I agree with you. To me it's a "Pot calling the kettle black" idiom.

You can't solve this problem through exclusion, the solution needs to be inclusive, like Lady's Learning Code and other such groups.

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Re:Etsy Wants to Give Female Programmers $5,000 to Attend Ha... by Zikes on Friday April 06, 2012 @05:43PM (#3809078)
Excluding a group is not inclusive, nor is focusing on a particular subset. Inclusion means everyone.

This is creating a positive effect for women, but having a negative effect on men by excluding them from the ability to qualify for their grants. That is not a solution, it does not solve the problem, it is a reversal of the problem which shifts the negativity to the other end of the spectrum.

A proper solution would be to remove the negativity altogether, perhaps by initiating societal reforms that don't shoehorn men and women into a particular role at a young age.

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