what indeed

[metaphortunate]

A female name online means taking 25x as much abuse as a man + real names policy + forced identity integration + Google ubiquity that forces me to have a G+ account to comment on Youtube, comment on apps, or SEE MY WORK CALENDAR = Google to women: "Get off the internet!"

but whyyyyyy are there no female Mark Zuckerbergs I FUCKING WONDER. "God knows what you would do to get 13 year old girls interested in computers", indeed.

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[karenbynight]

This, this, this. The whole theory that the gender problem in computer science is a pipelining problem requires ignoring lots of facts. In the late 80s, around 30% of computer science students were women, before the percentage at most schools dropped precipitously in the mid 90s. CS degree in the early 90s is where most of my VP of engineering / CTOs / senior architects seem to come from; why aren't anywhere near 1 in 3 of them women? Because it's not a pipelining problem.