Appropriateness of posts

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad" <ola.fosheim.grostad+dlang at gmail.com>]

On Monday, 17 March 2014 at 23:02:13 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> People see that software development is predominately male, and 
> they assume "Oh, it *MUST* be because those EVIL, SEXIST men 
> are TRYING to keep women out!" That genuinely pisses me off, 
> what the hell is this, 1920? When people actually *wanted* to

As a student I taught introductory courses in programming. There 
was a reasonable number of females because they needed the course 
for biology etc. I think the programming talent was fairly evenly 
distributed. But your average female student value belonging to a 
group of other females so when the ratio fall below a threshold 
only the determined, tomboyish, selfconfident or very smart 
females will persist. And my impression is that they tend to 
gravitate either towards the social side of IT or towards the 
mathematical side, but fewer go for the "tinkering" fields?

Of course, among the males the "tinkerers" start out in their 
nerdy teens in social boyish groups. So they have a five year+ 
head start. Female teens will have problem accessing those groups 
if they don't have a nerdy big brother who is kind or a very 
nerdy dad… Are teenagers sexist? Of course…

> rule against women. And yet somehow programming is allegedly 
> full of women-hating men? Fucking crock of shit.

Yeah, but programming is full of awkward teenage boys who lock 
themselves up in their basements where the girls cannot find 
them. ;-)