My granny is a programmer

foohbarbaz wrote: post #3

readme wrote: post #2

Afaik, gender equality was much better in the USSR than it is today in the US.

Uhm... No. Not then and not today.

Well... It depends, I suppose, what you define as equality. I'm too young to actually remember this, but I know from various sources that women under communist regimes, at least in central Europe, were seen as capable of working as hard as men. There are many posters of women driving agricultural machines (I don't know the word in English - something that's used to harvest cereal) and doing various other works that are traditionally associated with men. Aside from posters there were poems, novels and plays written that depicted women in the similar fashion, and later even tv shows, some of which are still popular today, showed women as soldiers, spies or even "entrepreneurs" of a kind. They supposedly had no problem with getting into colleges too. I don't know how much of this is true, but I guess the communists really did something for gender equality; I won't tell you what exactly and how much of an impact it had though.

Re: My granny is a programmer

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Post by jeza » Fri, Mar 08, 2013, 8:12 AM UTC

This doesn't surprise me. In Europe it's not uncommon to find women in computer science or engineering. In the US it's not unheard of. In Australia it's extremely rare and most of those that you do find were born overseas.

Re: My granny is a programmer

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Post by huhtenberg » Fri, Mar 08, 2013, 8:40 AM UTC

readme wrote: post #2

Afaik, gender equality was much better in the USSR than it is today in the US.

  - Are you married?
  - Yes
  - Do you have kids?
  - No
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Re: My granny is a programmer

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Post by evincarofautumn » Fri, Mar 08, 2013, 8:50 AM UTC

klibertp wrote: post #4

foohbarbaz wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Uhm... No. Not then and not today.

Well... It depends, I suppose, what you define as equality. I'm too young to actually remember this, but I know from various sources that women under communist regimes, at least in central Europe, were seen as capable of working as hard as men. There are many posters of women driving agricultural machines (I don't know the word in English - something that's used to harvest cereal) and doing various other works that a…

> agricultural machines

You’re probably thinking of tractors and harvesters.

Re: My granny is a programmer

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Post by tomsthumb » Fri, Mar 08, 2013, 9:09 AM UTC

evincarofautumn wrote: post #7

klibertp wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well... It depends, I suppose, what you define as equality. I'm too young to actually remember this, but I know from various sources that women under communist regimes, at least in central Europe, were seen as capable of working as hard as men. There are many posters of women driving agricultural machines (I don't know the word in English - something that's used to harvest cereal) and doing various other works that a…

> agricultural machines You’re probably thinking of tractors and harvesters.

Possibly a 'combine'(com-bine, with some oomph in that om)... kinda appropriate....

Re: My granny is a programmer

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Post by klibertp » Fri, Mar 08, 2013, 9:15 AM UTC

evincarofautumn wrote: post #7

klibertp wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well... It depends, I suppose, what you define as equality. I'm too young to actually remember this, but I know from various sources that women under communist regimes, at least in central Europe, were seen as capable of working as hard as men. There are many posters of women driving agricultural machines (I don't know the word in English - something that's used to harvest cereal) and doing various other works that a…

> agricultural machines You’re probably thinking of tractors and harvesters.

Tractors, exactly. I even googled the actual thing: http://www.bwphotography.pl/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/...

The text below says, roughly: "Let's fight for the betterment of socialistic Polish villages".

Re: My granny is a programmer

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Post by jiggy2011 » Fri, Mar 08, 2013, 9:19 AM UTC

readme wrote: post #2

Afaik, gender equality was much better in the USSR than it is today in the US.

To be fair you might expect that, if you have a command economy you can say "how can we get more women in IT?" and answer with "Take women out of nursing and put them in IT".