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Re:Places Where Women and Girls Can Learn to Code by hueving on Thursday November 13, 2014 @09:56AM (#8601781)
Ugh, it's stuff like this that perpetuates the idea that men and women have different abilities to learn coding.
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Re:Places Where Women and Girls Can Learn to Code by Cuuugi on Thursday November 13, 2014 @10:02AM (#8601810)
It's more like a women's only gym. It's to avoid guys (who have a hard enough time meeting girls).
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Re:Places Where Women and Girls Can Learn to Code by frtab on Thursday November 13, 2014 @10:09AM (#8601847)
It puts many people off to discover they're the only one of their gender in the room. That creates a self-reinforcing problem.

Projects like those linked above help break that circle.

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