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Re:Alpha male programmers aren't keeping women out by netsp on Monday April 27, 2009 @09:32PM (#582492)
"he problem is with the pipeline. There are fewer girls than guys who explore computing when they're 12."

Is that really the pipeline? If you go in to a 1st year CS/IT class, how many have been tinkering with programming for years? That's a genuine question. I don't know. I just suspect that it's a minority. Possibly as big a minority as business students who have tinkered in business or biology students that have tinkered in biology.

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Re:Alpha male programmers aren't keeping women out by erlanger on Monday April 27, 2009 @10:09PM (#582542)
I think you're mistaken in expecting similar ratios. Everybody has a computer, but not a set of Erlenmeyer flasks.
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Re:Alpha male programmers aren't keeping women out by netsp on Monday April 27, 2009 @11:20PM (#582623)
Your right. I was just trying to illustrate a point. The story of the 12 year old pulling apart a junked Pong console, may be slightly over told.
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Re:Alpha male programmers aren't keeping women out by Vitaly on Tuesday April 28, 2009 @02:54AM (#582817)
at the age 12 there are very few girls tinkering with computers. Later in life this translates to much less girls going to CS. not everyone doing CS started at 12, but if you start with more, you end up with more...
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