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Re:Y Combinator Female Founders Conference LiveStream by enneff on Saturday March 01, 2014 @11:51PM (#7327752)
> Men and women are different and have predispositions to excel in different areas.

Then how do you explain the radical skew toward gender imbalance that occurred after the field of programming came into being? Back in the 60s and 70s there were many more women in computing research than there are today. This is not because of "predispositions". It is cultural.

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Re:Y Combinator Female Founders Conference LiveStream by Crake on Sunday March 02, 2014 @03:33PM (#7330641)
I agree it's cultural.

Theory:

Women have more options now. They're choosing them.

Men have the same options now as they did then. They're choosing from a much more limited selection pool.

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