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by nanodano
3081 days ago
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Why is being a woman so important it is part of the title? Do women have a harder time learning? Is it a bigger accomplishment when a woman does it? Are people more fascinated by the fact that a _woman_ was able to code? I know, whenever I hear that a woman learned to code, I immediately think 'holy cow! no way! I wouldn't have cared if a man learned to code, but this was a woman. I better read this article.' Do titles like this make girls feel empowered or does it make them feel like only super-women can program because if a woman learns to program, it is worthy of magazine article. If I was a young girl and I saw articles like 'I'm a woman, and I learned to program!' I'd probably feel like 'geez, it really takes a lot of work for a woman to be a programmer and it is so rare that whenever it happens they write articles about it.' |
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Because programming is a stereotypically male field, and Glamour is a publication targetting a female audience, and the headline has a key job of communicating to the target audience (including, as necessary, overcoming common biases that they are likely to hold) that the article is relevant to them and worth reading.
> Do women have a harder time learning? Is it a bigger accomplishment when a woman does it? Are people more fascinated by the fact that a _woman_ was able to code
It's not a news article headlined “Woman learns to code”, which would justify those interpretations. It's an article titled (emphasis added) “Learning to code as a woman changed my life”. That how an experience changes your life is in part a function of the prior situation in your life, and that gender is (whether or not it ideally ought to be) a factor that significantly affects one situation in life are not particularly controversial observations.
> If I was a young girl and I saw articles like 'I'm a woman, and I learned to program!' I'd probably feel
The headline here wasn't like that, and from your phrasing you aren't a young girl which suggest your claim about what you would feel if you were reflects more the biases of your actual life situation as something other than a young girl than what anyone who is a young girl would actually think.
Beyond being focussed on a headline unlike the actual article headline, and being dubious speculation about what young girls might think about that straw man headline, this comment is also misplaced in pretending that an article in a woman's magazine that goes out of its way to point to coding as a pursuit that can be entered at any stage in life is focussed on an audience of “young girls” in the first place.