To the Girls of HackerNews: I am a Female Founder who Codes

Post by tomp » Mon, Jan 20, 2014, 10:44 AM UTC

kamaal wrote: post #100

primitivesuave wrote: post #90

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I think you missed the description of my organization - we're not doing professional development. We're training kids on how to better access technology, and quite frankly people on HN don't really understand what our atmosphere is like. Girls and the parents of girls really appreciate our all-girls classes and events, they have excellent attendance and the girls really come together as a community. I honestly couldn…

I can understand purely from an academic perspective- attending classes, passing tests, completing assignments. But again this model breaks down in the real world. One must really treat engineering as a practice and not as a degree. More like law and medicine. Throughout India, girls outscore boys in nearly every exam. Somehow that doesn't last at workplaces.

Post by _bfhp » Mon, Jan 20, 2014, 10:48 AM UTC

nthrow wrote: post #139

DanBC wrote: post #91

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Animus9 is an obvious mens rights advocate. They are indistinguishable from trolls; the only difference being that they believe the stuff they say.

Your statement is about as intelligent as saying feminists are indistinguishable from trolls. The men's rights movement, like feminism, isn't monolithic.

Post by belorn » Mon, Jan 20, 2014, 11:01 AM UTC

yeukhon wrote: post #118

Here is my abridged comment: 1. It is important to like who you are and what you do. I am glad you are proud of being who you are, 2. But at the same time I don't like when people are calling out initiatives like "more women in tech". Look, getting a job is tough. It can be luck or qualification. I know someone is going to cite some research studies but at this point, let's just say yes we get it, a lot of assholes o…

  I will not permit considerations of age, disease or disability, creed,
  ethnic origin, gender, nationality, political affiliation, race,
  sexual orientation, social standing or any other factor to intervene
  between my duty and my patient;

Post by nthrow » Mon, Jan 20, 2014, 11:07 AM UTC

_bfhp wrote: post #164

nthrow wrote: post #139

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Your statement is about as intelligent as saying feminists are indistinguishable from trolls. The men's rights movement, like feminism, isn't monolithic.

It is reactionary, i.e. its MO is to paint "feminism" as monolithic and dangerous. If these men really cared about gender inequality and the problems they face as men, they would see that many branches of feminism, like radical feminism, offers solutions where everyone comes out the winner. But that's not what "men's rights" is for. This is coming from a man who has learned a lot by listening to women instead of cons…

Post by kamaal » Mon, Jan 20, 2014, 11:20 AM UTC

tomp wrote: post #162

kamaal wrote: post #100

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I can understand purely from an academic perspective- attending classes, passing tests, completing assignments. But again this model breaks down in the real world. One must really treat engineering as a practice and not as a degree. More like law and medicine. Throughout India, girls outscore boys in nearly every exam. Somehow that doesn't last at workplaces.

I disagree, not just on this issue, but in general. I think academic education should be more the learning and less training - teach creativity, abstract thinking, curiosity, thinking out-of-the-box, ... The student's then become faster learners of the more mundane things, because they have a better mental abstraction framework, and can learn the things that are required on the job starting to work on the job!