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Google sponsors over $150k of grants for female programmers

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Re: Google sponsors over $150k of grants for female programmers

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Google also give significantly more (+$2000) to female winners in Google Cloud Developer Challange 2013. https://www.google.com/events/gcdc2013/about.html

That actually seems rather unfair. Suppose a team consisted of 3 women and one man - that would have put them in an awkward situation.

Re: Google sponsors over $150k of grants for female programmers

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Google also give significantly more (+$2000) to female winners in Google Cloud Developer Challange 2013. https://www.google.com/events/gcdc2013/about.html

I'm very surprised about this. If Google would say that teams that only consist of men, or white people would get $2K extra everyone would explode.

Re: Google sponsors over $150k of grants for female programmers

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Nice to see a simple story of encouragement. My peer group is fortunately pretty diverse in terms of culture and country of origin, but it misses out on a realistic distribution of sex, which I think is important as well. As a “white male programmer”, I’ve always been uncomfortable with an imbalanced group; now, being in a relationship with a female programmer, I’m exposed to a lot more of the actual iniquities. We s…

As a “ programmer”, I've always been uncomfortable with race based or gender based or orientation based policies. Google would have been better off taking the time evaluating each participant and then making a judgement on whether that person would benefit from additional help. That would be better for everyone rather than blindly assuming every female needs assistance or every "insert ethnicity here" needs assistance.

Re: Google sponsors over $150k of grants for female programmers

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Nice to see a simple story of encouragement. My peer group is fortunately pretty diverse in terms of culture and country of origin, but it misses out on a realistic distribution of sex, which I think is important as well. As a “white male programmer”, I’ve always been uncomfortable with an imbalanced group; now, being in a relationship with a female programmer, I’m exposed to a lot more of the actual iniquities. We s…

As a “ programmer”, I've always been uncomfortable with race based or gender based or orientation based policies. Google would have been better off taking the time evaluating each participant and then making a judgement on whether that person would benefit from additional help. That would be better for everyone rather than blindly assuming every female needs assistance or every "insert ethnicity here" needs assistanc…

But they do need help. Diversity is nice, but someone still has to do the actual work.

Re: Google sponsors over $150k of grants for female programmers

#17

Google also give significantly more (+$2000) to female winners in Google Cloud Developer Challange 2013. https://www.google.com/events/gcdc2013/about.html

I'm very surprised about this. If Google would say that teams that only consist of men, or white people would get $2K extra everyone would explode.

Maybe because that's not a very good solution for an industry-wide discrimination problem.

Re: Google sponsors over $150k of grants for female programmers

#18

Google also give significantly more (+$2000) to female winners in Google Cloud Developer Challange 2013. https://www.google.com/events/gcdc2013/about.html

That actually seems rather unfair. Suppose a team consisted of 3 women and one man - that would have put them in an awkward situation.

Just give them 3/4's as much. $2000 * 3/4 = $1500. Simple really.

Re: Google sponsors over $150k of grants for female programmers

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As a chick thinking about a career change towards programming, I find this very interesting...

Go for it. In the worst case, you have a secret weapon in whatever other non-coding career you are pursuing.

Not according to a majority of commenters in the Obama coding thread.

Re: Google sponsors over $150k of grants for female programmers

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Google also give significantly more (+$2000) to female winners in Google Cloud Developer Challange 2013. https://www.google.com/events/gcdc2013/about.html

I must admit things like that make me angry because of the implied "women are victims" message.
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