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@nergal Here at qoto, we are limited to 65535 characters in our posts.

What you are summing me up to, is only a small part of the question. And I am also been corrected to say that this is more generally a US thing. Females are underrepresented in the programming field. There is a big push by many people with wide and varying goals I assume to entice girls to take more courses that might bring them into this field. I am asking what are the actual benefits to the players, and is it actually beneficial to the field or to the females or possibly to companies involved for other less scrupulous reasons. That is the summary, that doesn't take nearly the same number of characters. :)

Most of the compilers and interpreters I have used don't require any particular specific genitalia to operate. So I don't see why a girl would be better at it than a boy or vise versa.

Is the reason that there are less girl programmers because it sucks to be around a bunch of boy programmers if you are a girl, or something else.

The programming industry is terribly lacking in discipline, and scientific method/process. There are many reasons it is broken, and throwing a bunch of girls at it probably won't be the fix. However, fixing it, might do more to attract them to it than its ridiculous chaotic mess does. But that is just a side observation.

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