Posted on 12/05/2017 12:44:13 PM PST by nickcarraway
Like the old sexist saying goes, “women can do anything a man can do, and sometimes better....”
Of course we all know that men usually just grunt “uh huh”...and perhaps roll their eyes...
This is not consistent with real world experience
Of course they do.
I think WWII demonstrated this reasonably well.
I know that anecdotal evidence is not conclusive, but my wife still has trouble answering her cell phone that she’s had for two years. The procedure for using a Kuerig coffee make still eludes her.
They are really good multitaskers. Better than many men I bet.
I had a nice looking gal from IT at my office desktop once upon a time.
I’d say more, but I’d come across as a sexist pig, so that’s all I will say.
Having been in the tech world for the last 45 years, I do not find this to be an accurate headline. I have met many smart men and many smart women, but I would not rate one any smarter than the other. Both sexes have their good and bad apples. To take something as broad as “tech” and say women are better (or worse) than men is injecting something irreverent into the equation. It’s like saying women like apples better than men do. ( of course you go with the reasoning that if you find men and women equal in the field, then the women may very well be smarter or more determined because 4o years ago nobody handed a boy a doll and told him the kitchen was a good place for him. We men had no barrier to the sciences and i am sure the women did. In that respect I would rate women as overcoming more to get where they are in in a tech field, but that does not mean they are any better or worse at it.
It hasn’t been borne out in aviation. Experience has shown that women tend to lose situational awareness in air-to-air combat more readily than men.
Yes. Women are greater, more honorable, and superior in every way to men, and should replace men in all things. Men = bad. Women = good. Got it.
What “tech skills” are we talking about? I suspect they are taking a rather expansive view of what constitutes tech skills.
Better at typing letters in Word??
I don’t believe it nor have I seen any evidence of it during my 82 years on this earth.
This is demonstrated every morning on the freeway...
This is a deceptive headline.
Women adopt technology faster as USERS of the tech. My observations are that they’re naturals.
Just observe your wives and daughters with their smartphones playing with Facebook.
But when it comes to the DEVELOPMENT, BUILD and SUPPORT of technical infrastructure, applications and devices they lag far, far behind.
That’s where men are naturals.
And I’ve been in the tech business for 40 years...before it was even called “tech”.
What about Ada Lovelace?
To say one sex is better than another at tech is a stretch to me, and I think unfounded.
People need to understand that men and women are not just anatomically different in the obvious sense, we are also hardwired completely differently upstairs. The two sexes think very differently, and even though that is true, it doesn't mean we can't both operate the same way in the end or reach the same conclusions about things, it just means the pathways are different.
There is a hilarious video called: "The Tale of Two Brains" by Mark Gungor.
This is largely true, and if you watch the video, you know it to be so simply by watching the reactions of the crowd.
I have always thought that if aliens came to earth and looked at a man and a woman, they would think we were two different species.
I say vive la difference!
Mother Hopper, the creator of COBOL one of the widest used business programming languages and still in use today. Sharp sharp Woman.
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