[hobs]

I have never heard anyone in real life tell a woman that she "codes like a girl.", as if that would be a diss anyway?

Given that anyone with even a basic understanding of history would be awed by some of the women in the industry (ada and grace anyone), you would have to pretty stupid to come to the conclusion that women cant code.

[wernercd]

When a guy tells another guy "You run like a girl.", "You hit like a girl", "sit like a girl", etc... it's historically an insult.

Recently, there has been an effort to "take the phrase back" and turn "... like a girl" into a good thing - instead of being considered an insult - Like the commercials that tout "Running like a girl".

I've never heard "coding... like a girl" either, so you have to frame it as part of this movement.

[rmc]

> Given that anyone with even a basic understanding of history

Y'know how some film might have "hackers trying to break the FBI's firewall key"? And we all laugh because those film makers are so stupid about technology? Or how a newspaper will tell you how magnets and cabbage will cure your brain age?

Find some forums for historians[1], and you'll see historians laugh at how bad common understanding of history is.

Many people don't have an understand of basic history.

[1] e.g. http://www.reddit.com/r/badhistory/

[VLM]

The article has a problem WRT "women used to code 50 years ago" and coding has changed and we don't have women anymore, from a statistical rounding perspective. Sure Ada and Grace were cool, but so are Limor Fried and Radia Perlman. There are real female programmers out there, not just activists or management plants or ancient history. The whole world isn't SV startup "brogrammer" culture where women are not permitted under a cloak of "culture fit". Personally I wish there were a judicial ruling that candidate rejection due to culture fit was prima facie legal evidence of racial or gender bias in hiring, because I know that to be the truth in practice.