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A Female Engineer's Opinion On Why Fewer Women Go In To Tech

posted by Fnord666 on Friday May 11 2018, @11:11PM   Printer-friendly
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Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

Over the last several months, I’ve witnessed many controversial discussions among my friends, in my San Francisco community, and on online forums about James Demore’s memorandum. People of both genders are wrestling with the fact that fewer women go into computer science and trying to find explanations that balance their experience, empathy, and ethical aspirations. I’ve heard lots of good-intentioned people consider discouraging theories of biological superiority because they can’t find any other compelling explanation (like this post on HackerNews, for example). As a woman who studied computer science, worked at some of the top tech firms, and has founded a software startup, I’d like to share my take on why fewer women go into CS and my opinion on how to address the issue.

[...] I graduated from Stanford with a BS in Mathematical & Computational Sciences in 2015, interned at Apple as a software engineer, and worked as an Associate Product Manager at Google 2015-2017. In October, I founded a video editing website called Kapwing and am working on the startup full-time. Although I’m only 25, I’ve already seen many of my female friends choose majors/careers outside of STEM and have been inside of many predominately-male classes, organizations, and teams.

This article is one person’s humble perspective, and I do not speak for every woman in tech. But hopefully having the view of someone who has “been there” can help people trying to understand why there are fewer women in tech.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by oakgrove on Saturday May 12 2018, @02:26AM (7 children)

    by oakgrove (5864) on Saturday May 12 2018, @02:26AM (#678672)

    [If you’re a dude and you’re reading this article] Go befriend a girl in your class or company. It’s not creepy. Include her, ask her for advice, introduce her, learn about her work and her life in the same way you would with any male friend or coworker.

    Haha. Yeah right. I think I'll not put myself into the position to be on the receiving end of a sexual harassment claim thank you very much. One of you other dummies^H^H^H^H guys are more than welcome to that.

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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 12 2018, @04:06AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 12 2018, @04:06AM (#678694)
    I'm currently mentoring a female student and trying to recruit her onto my dev team. Why? Because she's smart, personable and gets shit done.

    • (Score: 1) by oakgrove on Saturday May 12 2018, @05:10AM

      by oakgrove (5864) on Saturday May 12 2018, @05:10AM (#678712)

      Knock yourself out then. I couldn't care less what you do.

  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by epitaxial on Saturday May 12 2018, @04:35AM (4 children)

    by epitaxial (3165) on Saturday May 12 2018, @04:35AM (#678700)

    Is everyone here an autistic neckbeard? If you have such a fear then maybe you're the problem?

    • (Score: 1) by oakgrove on Saturday May 12 2018, @05:07AM (3 children)

      by oakgrove (5864) on Saturday May 12 2018, @05:07AM (#678711)

      autistic neckbeard

      Goes straight for the social standing attack. You peoples' schtick is so boring and predictable.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 12 2018, @06:54AM (2 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 12 2018, @06:54AM (#678736)

        autistic neckbeard

        Goes straight for the social standing attack. You peoples' schtick is so boring and predictable.

        ONLY an autistic neckbeard could possibly have anticipated this attack! How's boring and predictable now, autistic neckbeard?

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 12 2018, @09:02AM (1 child)

          by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 12 2018, @09:02AM (#678759)

          > M'lady

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 12 2018, @11:23PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 12 2018, @11:23PM (#678972)

            Pleasure is all mine, kind Sir!