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Re:Ask HN: Why is the hacker scene so hostile to women and b... by SamReidHughes on Tuesday December 10, 2013 @12:52AM (#6879197)
Stop worrying about computer science specifically -- it's no different in engineering fields, and worse in the sciences. The reasons are not specific to CS.
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Re:Ask HN: Why is the hacker scene so hostile to women and b... by jd0 on Tuesday December 10, 2013 @06:01AM (#6880025)
I'm addressing CS because it's relevant to me. It's a community that I participate in so I'm addressing this issue in my community. Honestly though, the gap between women and men in CS is far greater than other fields.
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Re:Ask HN: Why is the hacker scene so hostile to women and b... by SamReidHughes on Tuesday December 10, 2013 @07:29AM (#6880307)
You're replying to a reply about blacks' presence in these fields, not women's.
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Re:Ask HN: Why is the hacker scene so hostile to women and b... by jd0 on Tuesday December 10, 2013 @03:44PM (#6883561)
Yes you're correct, I honestly don't know what the achievement gap is for other science fields - so I don't know if it's worse in CS for people of color.
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Re:Ask HN: Why is the hacker scene so hostile to women and b... by thenerdfiles on Tuesday December 10, 2013 @01:28AM (#6879308)
With CS it's a more concrete problem because both the Tools and the Results count as linguistic artifacts, and there is a clearer correlation with languages and linguistic praxis.

EDIT: Removed "Conceptual Tools", etc.

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