Gender discrimination bump!
Explain your use of "discrimination", regarding the field of omputer science.
How about second sentence, Boston Globe, Major Barf alert!
"The argument of many computer scientists is that women who study science or technology, because they are defying social expectations, are in an uncomfortable position to begin with."
Utter nonsense. My Daughter is getting her masters in computer science. From my talks with her, she has an "edge" because she is female. Not that her grades are shaded, or anything like that, rather she has a slightly better chance at opportunities, because she is a woman. She says that if she were the right minority, she would never have to worry about paying for school.
1. Why not let the people who are interested in and good at something do it? What law/rule/convention says that everything has to be equitably divided along gender/racial/lifestyle lines?
2. Ladies (and gents), don't be snowed by someone who uses a term you don't know! If someone in a non-technical conversation, uses a word you don't know, what do you do? Look it up/ask/figure it out from context... Same thing with tech stuff. There are so many words and sub-specialties out there that you can't know them all. I'm sure you know some stuff that the speaker doesn't.
3. Be aware that a lot of the tech-speak among these guys is for 2 purposes. One is to establish a pecking order, similar to guys who have to drive faster cars with bigger stereos. (Mine is bigger than yours.) Another is to "impress babes". They are flexing their intellectual muscles for your benefit. I'm not saying this as a putdown and I'm glad for whatever it takes to motivate the techies. I once had 2 guys get into an argument in front of me about which operating system was better (I think it was between 2 flavors of Unix) and after a while I realized that the entire argument was for my benefit! As I sat and watched this argument unfold I could see the 2 guys as 2 animals with their antlers locked.
generally technical
Ping back. US women are smarted, they see no future in this. The only future is working for the government or financed by the government.
Hey! Don't blame me in years to come!
My 9 year old daughter has already become quite proficient at the GameCube she just got for Christmas (Something only her dad would have bought her :-)
I'm hoping I can raise her to be a geek like her dad!