The Hidden Engineering Gender Gap 807
ifindkarma writes "Joyce Park, CTO of invitation site Renkoo.com, has written a two-part essay exploring why there is no pipeline of self-taught female engineers entering the tech industry via Open Source or other individual efforts. In The Hidden Engineering Gap, she asks why there are so many self-taught male software engineers in startups, but no similar pool of women. In A Modest Proposal, she discusses a potential short-term fix to the problem: a one-year, co-op, certificate-granting program for women set up and sponsored by Silicon Valley companies."
facial hair (Score:3, Funny)
There are, but they don't look much different from the men, if you know what i mean.
I can't believe it (Score:1, Funny)
Hidden? (Score:5, Funny)
it's all configure's fault (Score:5, Funny)
checking for a BSD-compatible install...
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking for g++... g++
cheking for penis... ERROR: Penis not found.
Re:Better question: (Score:3, Funny)
No, no and no.
But they do come in a wide choice of clours, not just beige.
Re:facial hair (Score:2, Funny)
I've known some gorgeous female engineers with ... huge tracts of land.
Re:facial hair (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Why do women need preferential treatment? (Score:3, Funny)
Because they're not as smart, duh.
Re:facial hair (Score:4, Funny)
"It's true you don't see many Engineering women. And in fact, they are so alike in voice and appearance, that they are often mistaken for engineering men!
And this in turn has given rise to the belief that there are no engineering women, and that engineers just spring out of holes in the ground!"
(Blatant Two Towers Gimli reference)
Re:it's all configure's fault (Score:3, Funny)
Close, but you've got it wrong:
Re:Cultural or Biological? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:facial hair (Score:2, Funny)
Re:it's all configure's fault (Score:2, Funny)
they also need man page!
$ man woman
No manual entry for woman
$ man man works fine though!
Re:Don't paint engineering pink! (Score:4, Funny)
And walking through the nearest shopping mall it seems that, at least on a personal level, women spend the bulk of it.
Re:facial hair (Score:5, Funny)
Maybe if we could get computers to recognise and respond to boobs, some kind of "boob input device" or something, more women would be interested in working with them? After all, if men can be controlled with boobs, but computers could be controlled with boobs, keyboard AND mouse, then computers could be controlled much better than men - who lack the keyboard and mouse interface - then the computers are going to be much more fun!
I'm a genius!
So what you're saying is.... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:facial hair (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Excuse me, but how to take women seriously when (Score:3, Funny)
It comes as no surprise at all to me that women don't want to have serious conversations with you, though.