Re:Alpha male programmers aren't keeping women out
by alphazero on Monday April 27, 2009 @09:59PM
(#582534)
Its the tools, stupid.
We're an arts and crafts "industry". Only a fraction of our time is spent thinking about the problem in the abstract. A great deal of it is spent wrestling with our primitive tool kit to realize the concept.
When programming becomes entirely an intellectual field, you will see the same gender ratios as you see in other mature sciences.
We're an arts and crafts "industry". Only a fraction of our time is spent thinking about the problem in the abstract. A great deal of it is spent wrestling with our primitive tool kit to realize the concept.
When programming becomes entirely an intellectual field, you will see the same gender ratios as you see in other mature sciences.