How I Stopped Worrying and Started Loving PyLadies

Re:How I Stopped Worrying and Started Loving PyLadies by hynek on Saturday July 14, 2012 @08:05AM (#4243950)

The success of outreach programs prove your “Women just weren't interested enough to put CS in their application forms for college.” wrong. Unless women changed significantly since the mid-nineties which I doubt.

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Re:How I Stopped Worrying and Started Loving PyLadies by batista on Saturday July 14, 2012 @09:02AM (#4244054)

>The success of outreach programs prove your “Women just weren't interested enough to put CS in their application forms for college.” wrong.

Actually it reinforces my point.

If it took "outreach programs" to make them take interest doesn't it mean that they _weren't_ interested enough in CS in the first place?

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Re:How I Stopped Worrying and Started Loving PyLadies by lolcatstevens on Monday July 16, 2012 @12:25AM (#4249300)

"If it took "outreach programs" to make them take interest doesn't it mean that they _weren't_ interested enough in CS in the first place?"

Why do you think that is? The money isn't good enough? The life and hours of a developer aren't good enough? Women aren't capable of understanding programming?

Step back, man. You read like yet another HN poster.

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Re:How I Stopped Worrying and Started Loving PyLadies by hynek on Saturday July 14, 2012 @09:45AM (#4244130)

You could put it that way. The point here is that the threshold of interest needed to apply is much higher for women than for men.

These barriers are real but you, as a man, can’t really judge that because you hadn’t to cope with them. You could only try to talk to women (stress is on plural) and try to empathize.

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