Comment Bankok Lady-Boys LINUX weekend away (Score 1) 343
As a male programmer, I went to University in a class with 49% women. While they're all working in the IT industry, I don't know how many of them are actually *programming*.
I'm also a musician, and find a lot of similarities: the creative aspect tempered with a need for technical proficiency. And I find a similar reaction from women when discussing the technicalities of either. They are just not interested. They can laugh about how they have no interest in it, but can talk about shoes for 2 hours. But they still do it.
There are, of course, some women who are interested. And let's never forget that the field of computer programming was created by a woman.
As for the very politically-correct assertation that the brains of women and men are the same, let me pose a hypothetical: if you're looking for someone to mind your kids, would your first choice be a man or a woman? Exactly. Of couse there are differences, the crime isn't in recognising this - it's in using it as a means to discriminate unfairly.
Vive la differance.
I'm also a musician, and find a lot of similarities: the creative aspect tempered with a need for technical proficiency. And I find a similar reaction from women when discussing the technicalities of either. They are just not interested. They can laugh about how they have no interest in it, but can talk about shoes for 2 hours. But they still do it.
There are, of course, some women who are interested. And let's never forget that the field of computer programming was created by a woman.
As for the very politically-correct assertation that the brains of women and men are the same, let me pose a hypothetical: if you're looking for someone to mind your kids, would your first choice be a man or a woman? Exactly. Of couse there are differences, the crime isn't in recognising this - it's in using it as a means to discriminate unfairly.
Vive la differance.
