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.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday May 12 2018, @03:01PM (1 child)
I believe that GP stipulated that you DON'T view your coworker as a potential mate. Didn't he say something about "don't think with our groin"?
(Score: 2) by jmorris on Saturday May 12 2018, @06:47PM
And if you reread what I wrote you will find that I'm saying that in $current_year it no longer matters. Purely platonic or raw dogging, anywhere on that whole spectrum is now almost equally dangerous. Whether the form lists "toxic masculinity", "mansplaining", "sexual harassment" or "rape" really doesn't matter because the end result is now the same for you. Anywhere Progs hold sway, universities, major corporations, the tech industry, etc.