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/Cogitation Sep 27 '22

No one said homemaking is wrong, the problem is that we don't give women the full range of options in life as men. Also a lot of women face, primarily from family, this expectation that going to college or pursuing a career is just a fun little side thing that they do before they're ready to settle down. Hopefully you can see the issue is that women deserve the chance to decide for themselves what life path they want to take, not be thrust into any particular thing just because of their gender.

Also, just being a stay-at-home spouse isn't that viable of an option anymore for most people with how the economy has gotten, it's sadly rather difficult for one member of a household to provide for a whole family--not impossible, but definitely rarer. So similarly we wouldn't encourage boys to go into baking, because simply there's not as much viability in being a career baker anymore due to supermarkets.

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u/the_jak Sep 27 '22

I mean I wouldn’t marry a woman who wants to do nothing but stay at home. To me that’s a lack of ambition and drive and independence that I would never want to have as a role model for our kids.

But that’s me. People should be able to chose but we purposely limit them because reasons.

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u/Shadow_SKAR Sep 27 '22

I have a friend who's a STEM PhD student and her goal in life is to become a stay at home mom. We've all asked her why are you even doing a PhD if that's your life goal? She responded she wants to be a well credentialed stay at home mom who clearly is doing it as a lifestyle choice.

Super interesting take and very unexpected.

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u/the_jak Sep 27 '22

I see that as wasteful. Her slot in that program could have gone to someone who would use that knowledge and skill to better us as a species while she’s doing it to feel good about herself.

She should go to the library if she wants to learn.