[LeoJiWoo]

I don't see the problem in pinking stuff.

If that's the social cue to make tech okay for a large majority of girls, what's the harm. Most people seem to want to be male or female.

The more options the better, I think. We need to increase the amount of women in tech.

[tzahola]

>We need to increase the amount of women in tech.

How about truck drivers? Do we need to increase the amount of women there too?

[twobyfour]

To the degree that it's an opening to economic opportunity, then yes, why not?

FWIW, truck driving (at least long-haul) is a little different from programming in one important regard: it takes the driver away from their families for days at a time. This is typically more problematic for women than for men, since women are still more likely to be responsible for care of home and family, whether they want to or not. (IMO that's another issue our society needs to address w.r.t. gender equality, but it's a bit tangential to the current topic of discussion.)

By contrast, programming jobs are no more gender-loaded in terms of the lifestyle involved than law jobs are. There's no reason for women to self-select out of them aside from being told that programming isn't for them or being made to feel unwanted.

[randomdata]

What about agriculture? That industry has faced labour deficiencies for years, and the need is only growing with tightening controls on migrant labour. Interestingly, worldwide, women are more likely than men to work in agriculture, but in the USA the industry is overwhelmingly dominated by men.

Why isn't there a big push to get women into US agriculture like there is for US tech? Where is the government creating "farming" classes in school like they have done with coding?

[twobyfour]

I don't know.

But just because another industry isn't working on their problem doesn't mean we shouldn't work on ours.

[randomdata]

I work in agriculture, so it is my industry and my place to work on. But realistically this problem does not seem exclusive to any particular industry, so I'm not sure it even makes sense for a specific industry to try and attack the problem in a way that only applies to that industry. There must be some solution that applies generally? Why not work together?

[dsfyu404ed]

Write a letter to your elected representative. With current DOT roles anyone who isn't willing to piss in a jug to save a couple minutes is at a severe disadvantage.

[tzahola]

How about taxi drivers? They don’t pee in bottles too often.

[lerie82]

Pretty good point.