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

Post by pjmlp » Mon, Jan 20, 2014, 9:13 AM UTC

kamaal wrote: post #74

shaan7 wrote: post #43

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you mean to run a "competitive company" you have to abuse your employees? I know a lot of companies that are the best in their business and never have to. It is just unfortunate for India that our so-called IT Industry is just marketing itself as cheap and easy-to-abuse labour.

>>you mean to run a "competitive company" you have to abuse your employees? Not at all, but to be a "competitive company" you have to be "competitive" which is essentially doing better than your competition. The issue is someone is always willing to put more effort than you/your company. This is where it all breaks down. This is exactly what makes our profession so much sought after. Because at some point you can mak…

Post by _bfhp » Mon, Jan 20, 2014, 9:14 AM UTC

chongli wrote: post #59

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There is nothing about programming computers that is gender specific; in fact it seems kind of weird and awkward that we have to discuss this at all. Given that so many of the foundational figures of the field ( Ada Lovelace, Grace Hopper, etc. ) were female, the fact that programming and IT became an almost entirely male-dominated profession is suspicious, and should make us question the attitudes and social constru…

( Ada Lovelace, Grace Hopper, etc. ) I think the problem is that we always name these two . Ada Lovelace died 161 years ago. Is she really all that relevant a role model for girls today?

Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jan 20, 2014, 9:16 AM UTC

alan_cx wrote: post #47

Tongue in cheek, but I think there might be a point here struggling to see the light of day... Why? I mean, why would women want to get into coding? If one is not already working with computers, from the outside world, its a crappy job, and the money isn't better than many other things. Not to mention the insane hours culture. Women have a clean sheet choice. Why work in an office, killing your brain on hugely comple…

Post by tommorris » Mon, Jan 20, 2014, 9:16 AM UTC

romanovcode wrote: post #58

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Yes exactly. I'm a bit fed up with people advocating more women in . As far as I can tell these same people don't complain that teachers and nurses jobs are mainly occupied by women. Everybody seem to agree that a nursing job is not attractive for most men. Maybe the reason that women are few in tech is because these professions are not attractive to them.

Never in my life I've seen an article named I'm teacher and I'm a male! ; Life as a male nurse ; etc .. I think these articles are mainly link-bait for pageviews, nothing more.

Post by kamaal » Mon, Jan 20, 2014, 9:19 AM UTC

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>>Our solution was to simply make a small set of our classes for girls only. Your solution will make the problem worse. Because nothing will really change in the way boys work, and you will see the same late night, whole night, full weekend culture among them. Girl's classes will see a far little attendance totally detached from culture in the other part of world. Soon the rewards will dry out and move towards crazy…

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…