A female engineer's opinion on why there are fewer women in tech

Post by pas » Tue, May 15, 2018, 1:51 PM UTC

blattimwind wrote: post #136

0x4f3759df wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>software is perceived as anti-social My experience is that this perception has a strong grounding in reality.

IME about 90 % of that is enforced and actively pursued by the workers. E.g. preferring HCCH-based reviews over pair reviewing, "don't disturb me", [noise-cancelling] headphones, locked office doors, mail and instant messaging over talking and so forth

Why is that different from anything that requires concentration?

Also, what's HCCH? [Human-computer-computer-human?]

> IM, email

Maybe programmers are just lazy and picky, so they want to get things done quickly and at their own workstation?

Post by heyyyouu » Wed, May 16, 2018, 9:23 PM UTC

Gibbon1 wrote: post #465

heyyyouu wrote: post #319

I think the author may really be onto something here. I have teenage and twenty-something daughters. My youngest is very excited about her stats minor but when I suggested computer science to her the horror that crossed her face...like it was a personal insult. Another one is into math and science and also wouldn't consider CS if her life depended on it -- physics or chemical engineering, sure, but never CS. Both do…

> physics or chemical engineering, sure, but never CS. I think ultimately a career in real engineering field would be easier and more satisfying to your daughters than CS. Because CS is thick with toxic lord of the flies man child's at this point.

See, that's the thing: I haven't experienced that myself but I may just be lucky -- I don't know.

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