Three points that seem to say that the
girls/women should do well in
information
technology:
(1) Advantages.
As I recall from K-12, college, and more,
in several respects of talent,
interest, diligence, psychology,
socialization, etc., the girls/women
(girls here and below) are, on average,
significantly better than the boys/men
(boys here and below). So, the girls
have some significant advantages.
Of course, coding, information technology,
computing, etc. consist of "clean indoor
work, no heavy lifting".
With those advantages and the nature of
the work, it would appear that any girls
who want to do well in coding, etc. have
a good shot, often better than that of the
boys.
(2) Evaluation.
How to evaluate the girls?
As in the OP, is it important for the
girls to wear pretty, feminine clothes
versus nerd wear of worn jeans and
T-shirts?
No. The main issue is getting the work
done.
When I was a student, it seemed that the
girls got graded on their work, not their
clothes; when I was a professor giving
grades, again the only issue for a grade
was the work. Thus, it seems to me that,
in the world of work in information
technology, the easy, natural, obvious
approach is just to evaluate the work,
ignoring clothing, gender, etc.
(3) Writing.
In computing, we need to build on the work
of others, but to do so we need a good
description of that work. That is, we
need good documentation.
Thus, to me, currently the main bottleneck
to progress in information technology is
bad documentation from poor writing.
Since in school on average the girls were
better at writing than the boys, I have to
believe that girls can be quite welcome
and do well improving the quality of the
writing and, thus, help alleviate the
bottleneck.
If my startup works, then I will have to
hire, and I will expect a person who does
some work will also write the relevant
documentation. Here the girls should have
an advantage.
