| > Back-end developers often attribute front-end expertise not to mastery but to alchemy, wizardry or magic... What? > ...in other words, those soft fuzzy things that women are supposed to excel at Oh, right. Support for the narrative. That's why that BS is shoe-horned in there. You can just as easily say design is less like programming, more like art. Maybe there is a gender imbalance in art? But it isn't a subject that I know of to have a gender stigma. > The gendered attributes switch as you travel to the back of the stack The back of the stack has the impression of being mainly technical (and often less client-facing), which is why the stereotype is of a "relentlessly logical, asocial sci-fi enthusiasts – bearded geniuses". Other than 'bearded', are these gendered attributes? If so, so what; it seems the job fits. > The bearded savant of computer science lore Does the author just throw in 'bearded' again because it fit the narrative? TBH, the this is the Guardian; its sex-baiting, concern-trolling, virtue-signalling feminism section does more harm than good. Just look at its coverage of Trumps Merkel snub: "Trump did to Merkel what men do to women all the time", another Jessica Valenti classic. |