| > Would be great if more people were honest about what they really believed. Why are you implying we're not? I do believe there is no big issue with female developers, apart from the fact they (still) don't fit the typical female role idea in the minds of too many people. Most girls will follow the group and do what their older friends / family / ... did and where they feel they should be. And that simply does not include "nerdy" positions. Then again there's the thing discussed a couple of months ago - too many developer communities are just unused to women developers and create weird situations. Bring up some project on typical forums and mention the name of a woman leading it. See how many will turn into "look, it's made by a woman and she's pretty too" threads, forgetting the project itself completely. Point it out and you'll meet with lots of aggression :( Surprisingly, I did meet a few women leading interesting software projects and a number of developers - majority of them in eastern Europe. In UK, I haven't met any... (apart from those who migrated) Just a data point. > the reason women generally don’t get into tech is because they’re not interested in it This is the interesting part. The real question is - are they not interested because society makes them think they shouldn't be or because women are naturally different from men in a way that makes them not interested. I think we'll only find out once "geek girl" stops being a bad thing for teenagers and guys in development stop being more interested in the "woman" part of "woman developer" (in work context at least). Whether we really need to fight that hard to change the current situation is a completely different question though. Maybe it just needs time and 1-2 generations to correct itself. |