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@zleap Men generally are not working in the lower grades. Pre- Kindergarten and Early elementary education tend to be the fields dominated by women. With breakdown of nuclear families in general we are having more matrilocal society in general. Not sure what we get from that, other than more boys raised by mostly women. Perhaps that has something to do with the increase in transgirls and other gender dismorphic issues. But that is yet a different topic. Just mentioning it will no doubt bring me some hate both from those pro as well as con.

I do understand history enough that I know how initially the toy industry made computers a 'boy' thing. But if we look historically we have some female pioneers in the computer industry. Margaret Hamilton and Grace Hopper are the only two names that come to mind, and I bet most people would be hard pressed to come up with them.But if you look at who they were, they were well educated mathematicians first, to whom computers were just a tool to magnify their own abilities.

Maybe the industry itself is just so diluted by young boys thinking they stepped into the big money with a tiny degree who are lacking the discipline, and regimented processes that are the actual problem. And bringing in girls at the same level may not help that. Just make it worse, by focusing on unrelated social issues.

@pganssle well, ask a stupid question.... :)

@pganssle To which I say... "Why?" :)

@zleap I am not asking how to further this cause. I am asking what the underlying motivation for it is?

Valued or not, we have no lack of both female and male persons going into medical and other service fields. As well, such with the engineering fields, biology, math and so on. Are there particular reasons that females have not been in the programming field in similar numbers as males, and is the push intended to benefit the females by dragging them into a field they otherwise had little interest in or is it intended to somehow benefit the field by something a person possessing different genitalia brings to the field by virtue of such?

I doubt that there is anything about a penis that helps someone write better C/C++ code.

Likewise what is the reason to "market" girls into a field such as this?

Don't get me wrong, I am not against it, per se. I am just looking for the motivation. Maybe I need to get my tinfoil hat out, but something just isn't quite lining up.

In my mind when you say, "Hey we don't have enough girls programming, we need to get some more girls programming!" It makes me ask "What is the right number of girls? What aren't/can't we do that we could if only more of our programmers were girls?" or "Might we be better off with all girls!"

Are there actual brain differences that make one gender better suited for one job or another such as solving math equations or grinding out long boring code to brute force some painful data processing problem? Should we have more boys working in daycare centers taking care of babies? Or any of the other 12 female dominated fields.

Thoughts on the day...

So it would seem that there is a huge push to get girls/women/ladies/female persons into STEM and programming specifically. There are people working on "scholarships" or "free tickets to cons" and such for them as underrepresented class of persons. I am wondering the actual specific reasons? Is it because we have an actual shortage of programming persons? Or because this class of persons desires to be in programming, but is somehow being shut out? There doesn't necessarily seem to be lack for this class of persons in other STEM fields. Could it also be due to the fact that this class of persons is traditionally paid less than their boy/man/dude/male person counterpart performing the same job as an attempt to lower the cost to businesses employing such? I am curious of the pushes that are being done, because I never trust the motivation given for anything that affects so many aspects of something.

Without turning this into an essay, I want to raise a few more questions?
Does the industry gain anything in the field from diversity itself? Does a programming team benefit from having a person of a specific gender, race, religion, national origin <insert the rest of the eoe protected classes> from the fact that they are in fact a member of that class.
Should the industry and its players change itself, (customs, culture, mores, language, and so on) to allow for such integration, or would the marriage of such new culture to an existing culture naturally change it organically?
Is this done in other industries where they are made up lacking a certain class of person and strong encouragement, support etc. is made to interest, entice, or otherwise bring members of that lacking class into it?

@hardmous@mastodon.sdf.org bear is pretty much one and a half times the size of a big silverback. I am going for the bear

@kat sounds like another pretty safe position.

@kat all I saw was this:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ESfBz0TWkAA29MQ?format=jpg&name=medium

@hardmous@mastodon.sdf.org what kind of bear?

Largest gorilla is about 600 lbs(275 Kg) and a Grizzly or Polar bear can be up to 1100 lbs or as much as 1500 lbs respectively.

And in a fight where? Shall we stage it on ice floats of the arctic?

I hope everyone is okay, and practicing social distancing.

@Murkrow Hooray for a good sock collection. I just have white ones and black ones...

I hope everyone is doing well. If your job gave you the ability to work from home, use this as an opportunity to show them how much more productive you can be without having to come into an office. Don't prove their fears that people they can't see aren't working. Silver lining might be more remote working positions... :)

@Kamfer@mastodon.social one could hope :)

So far we have over 500 companies that are either recommending or requiring employees to work from home.

What are the chances that companies will find increased productivity from people able to work from home, and not have to deal with commutes and death by meeting?

Or will people being given liberal work from home policies all of the sudden actually screw-off and not work (the management's fear/prevailing opinion/reason for not having more WFH situations up until now)?

There could be a silver lining, and perhaps companies would see that people would work even though you can't see their "butts in seats". One could hope.. :)

#wfh #management #employees #workfromhome #worklifebalance #policies

Harvey Weinstien sentenced today 23 years. 3 years for one count of rape, and 20 years for one count of "an illegal sexual act".

I am trying to imagine what an illegal sexual act is, such that it is 7 times worse than rape?

@freemo Like my coffee... with cream and 2 sugars :)

@akater once I finish the mentored track on exercise.io I will look for a proper walk through tutorial.

@akater when I started off I was using Vim and just running the tests from the command line. So it kind of didn't matter what one I ran. But as I move over to Emacs I want to do it "the right" way. Just need to figure out what it is

@akater still bouncing around different emacs setups.