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> We need more women in our field. Why?
To flip the question around: why is it OK to have industries (any industry, really) dominated by men?
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> We need more women in our field. Why?
To flip the question around: why is it OK to have industries (any industry, really) dominated by men?
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Specifically Ada Lovelace described what we’d now call computer programs in her own language while assisting in the creation of adding machines. She’s widely regarded as the first programmer.
Sure. The statement quoted above, however, is childish.
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Sure. The statement quoted above, however, is childish.
The statement that "women invented programming" is as meaningless as "men invented mathematics". It is blind to all the contributions of everyone that preceded and entire field .
The redditization of HN: activism vs critical thinking.
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> We need more women in our field. Why?
To flip the question around: why is it OK to have industries (any industry, really) dominated by men?
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To flip the question around: why is it OK to have industries (any industry, really) dominated by men?
It is OK because caring is loving. From those who can, for those who need. If a profession demands masculine traits (consider underground mining) then it should be performed by those who can make the most of it. If we insist on having under performing people on those positions based on some ideology then all will suffer . When someone dies we will have to face the reality that the cure could have been here now if the…
And in some professions, the gender divide is more of a self-perpetuating cycle (there are examples of this for both sexes), based on the historical workforce, rather than being inherently suited to one sex.
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> We need more women in our field. Why?
To flip the question around: why is it OK to have industries (any industry, really) dominated by men?
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The statement that "women invented programming" is as meaningless as "men invented mathematics". It is blind to all the contributions of everyone that preceded and entire field .
Precisely. The redditization of HN: activism vs critical thinking.
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Things do come up sometimes but it's a question of do you need exact 50:50 representation or is it enough to ensure there's a voice for each sex. danah boyd pointed out to VR researchers she was working with that their product was "sexist" because it made assumptions about vision that were far more true for males than females. But she used the word sexist in a narrow way to just point out that vision fact, not to mak…
VR/AR/XR is a very good example. Meta’s headsets and most 3rd party straps still default to a top strap that runs along the center of the head front to back. For any woman that wears their hair in a ponytail or bun this is a no-go. That design makes it really hard to demo product to 50+% of the population. I always seek out replacement straps that have an extra front strap instead of a center strap for this reason. A…
Female specific stuff is a thing and yeah you definitely need to design clothing for women (with several different shapes), but your argument is stretching and just looking for a problem to justify the wanting more female programmer thing.
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Precisely. The redditization of HN: activism vs critical thinking.
Exactly. Notice how the two comments calling out the childish comment, one simply asking why and one questioning the claim, were downvoted. "We need more women in the field" really means "we want more women in the field" and they refuse to reflect on why they want this. I assume it must be some kind of guilt that's been drummed in.
So if that’s true, and I think it is, then it’d be a good thing to get more working in