How to attract girls to the tech industry
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Re: How to attract girls to the tech industry
#2Obligatory Kate Beaton comics:
http://www.harkavagrant.com/history/lovelacesm.png
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#3> Mrs Lovelace was coding in an age when even few men were
It's even better than that. Ada was coding before there were COMPUTERS.
Also see Bret Victor's rant on creating the future: "In 1968 — three years before the invention of the microprocessor — Alan Kay stumbled across Don Bitzer's early flat-panel display. Its resolution was 16 pixels by 16 pixels — an impressive improvement over their earlier 4 pixel by 4 pixel display. Alan saw those 256 glowing orange squares, and he went home, and he picked up a pen, and he drew a picture of a goddamn iPad." http://worrydream.com/ABriefRantOnTheFutureOfInteractionDesi...
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#4I must get too much spam. I first read this as "in", instead of "to". Darned priming.
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#5The title is actually Why tech needs a makeover to attract girls but the article doesn't say why. Technology is at the forefront of the economy and women have a vital role to play feels rather empty.
And while I'm sure Brazil and India can offer insights and be on the forefront of improving policies, those are not really very enticing models to emulate. Let's be honest, women in India work in IT to get ahead because India is poor.
"I must study politics and war, that our sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. Our sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry and porcelain."
Hipsters are living the dream. Most people don't want to slave away at the keyboard.
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#6Why do we have to "attract" them?
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#7Step 1: stop referring to adult women as "girls"
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#8Step 1: stop referring to adult women as "girls"
I think they're trying to interest actual girls (read "from 7 to 22") in technology and coding.
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#9The title is actually Why tech needs a makeover to attract girls but the article doesn't say why. Technology is at the forefront of the economy and women have a vital role to play feels rather empty. And while I'm sure Brazil and India can offer insights and be on the forefront of improving policies, those are not really very enticing models to emulate. Let's be honest, women in India work in IT to get ahead because…
Engineers and doctors are held in high esteem by Indians (not to mention a lot of other Asians) so no, the women in India do not 'work in IT to get ahead because India is poor'