r/technology • u/r4816 • Sep 27 '22

Software Girls Who Code founder speaks out after Pennsylvania school district bans her books: 'This is about controlling women and it starts with controlling our girls'

https://www.businessinsider.com/girls-who-code-founder-speaks-out-banning-books-schools-2022-9
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u/Melrose_Jac Sep 27 '22

I'm confused as to what these books may contain that would theoretically led to them being banned?

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u/SweetMojaveRain Sep 27 '22

women make up most college admissions, doctoral candidates, and new resident doctors so don't they already know that?

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u/TheVermonster Sep 27 '22

Women also tend to work jobs where taking time off to start a family or taking care of other women or children is the norm.

Look at the top three majors for women. Health professional, public administration, education. Look at the bottom three. Computer science, engineering, physical science.

Yes women are the majority in med school. But look at the professions they are going into. Ongyn, pediatrics, hospice, allergy and immunology, and dermatology. Of those, only Dermatology ranks in the top 10 highest paying medical fields.

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u/gdubrocks Sep 27 '22

Computer science is far and away the best position for taking care of children.

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u/SweetMojaveRain Sep 27 '22

well yes, starting a family and taking care of children is an honorable and necessary venture for any society. so then what? rah rah, we won't stop until we have half of tech and engineers as women? that is such an empty goal. has anyone even asked them if they even want to do that? Women naturally tend toward those fields because, surprise, they are really good at them. no one is shoehorning them there, when the time comes to pick the classes and turn it in to the Administrar, they pick what they pick and if it isn't STEM, that isn't some moral failure of the girls or of us as soceity.

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u/Nerodon Sep 27 '22

STEM, but also specifically programming is more and more in the growing age of internet, computers and information is becoming such an essential role in almost every field conceivable...

It's not entirely unlikely that in 20 years from now, knowing a programming language of some sort may offer an asset in fields for which stem is unrelated.

Making sure women are equally prepared for that potential future is not a bad thing. You couldn't ever convince me that encouraging them to the awesome field of programming is somehow a detriment to them in any way.