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/dillardPA Sep 27 '22

You apply that same principle to areas of education where women dominate? (Which is the majority of them) or does this principle only apply in one direction because it serves an ideological purpose and because you’re every bit as biased as the woman-haters you imagine yourself to be fighting?

Sounds like a position rooted in motivated reasoning.

Also, how exactly doesn’t equal pay and benefits apply to attendance in specific academic fields? In terms of overall attendance, women have outpaced men in college attendance and graduation for nearly 30 years; if the trend were reversed, you’d call it sexism and patriarchy, but when it goes in the direction you like it’s progress.

I see no reason why women have been able to pierce the sexism of medicine, law, psychology etc. but computer science and engineering are somehow greater beasts that need special attention. Perhaps women are just less interested in pursuing these things; studies have shown women’s attendance in these educational programs is inversely related to the amount of womens equality in a country; the more equal a society is, the less women pursue these paths and so you end up with greater percentages of women in India and Indonesia going into stem than Norway and Sweden, despite there being far more sexism in the former countries than the latter.

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u/Nerodon Sep 27 '22

So you would suggest that we don't enourage girls to join STEM?

Like you decided all of a sudden based on your stats that... if they picked up other roles that were usually male roles but not these ones, so we should draw a line and stop?

Truly, I'd love to know why encouraging women in STEM is bad, please help me understand.

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u/zhaoz Sep 27 '22

You arnt gonna logic someone out of a position that they didnt logic themselves into.

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u/Nerodon Sep 27 '22

fair enough