An educational website featuring a collection of innovations by women in the fields of computer science and technology.

This is nice. I didn’t know about these women, other than Grace Hopper.

Why are women so underrepresented in tech?

  • TheConquestOfBed@lemmy.ml
    161·
    3 years ago

    Nah, it’s not that at all. Women are just as analytic and capable of working through high level theory as men. It’s just a slog to show up to a course or lab or office and be the only girl there. Most just avoid it because they can foresee how it’s gonna go down. Getting into ‘girly’ interests feels safe before you even start because you’re guaranteed to be surrounded by women who empathize with you.

    • Amicese@lemmy.mlOP
      5·
      3 years ago

      It’s just a slog to show up to a course or lab or office and be the only girl there. Most just avoid it because they can foresee how it’s gonna go down. Getting into ‘girly’ interests feels safe before you even start because you’re guaranteed to be surrounded by women who empathize with you.

      Why does that feel so relatable?

    • angarabebesi@lemmy.ml
      11·
      3 years ago

      Why don’t women contribute to FOSS? No body knows if you are male or female unless you tell them.

      • TheConquestOfBed@lemmy.ml
        5·
        3 years ago

        Because the classes to learn programming in and the offices to get hired in are male dominated? FOSS doesn’t exist in a vacuum, it’s often contributed to by people already in tech jobs (cause people need money to live). Rust, for example, has a large contingent of devs who work for Amazon. If women aren’t getting tech jobs then we likely aren’t going to be doing FOSS on the side either. Skills take time to learn.

      • sexy_peach@feddit.de
        41·
        3 years ago

        Why are so few men kindergarten teachers? Because they’re from a young age not even told that it’s a valid option for a man. Same for women in tech.