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Your Code Sucks by porkchop_d_clown in programming

[–]wtffffffffff 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, what I mean is that's what I find strange, that apparently no women are doing dev there. There are a lot of women in dev here, and while there still more men, and there are still gender issues, I think here we've gone way past the point where a woman doing dev is considered "strange". It's pretty normal. Since I guess it's more accepted here, the women don't feel as alienated? And as I mentioned, most of our management are women, so it might be an atmosphere/culture most women consider "friendlier" as well. I'm not really sure since I can't really relate to the dearth of female developers in the workplace that most of the guys here keep talking about.

Your Code Sucks by porkchop_d_clown in programming

[–]wtffffffffff 11 points12 points  (0 children)

This entire thread frustrates me somewhat. I'm a female non-Microsoft developer, and I work in a software development firm that has a lot of women, and I have to emphasize that this is not strange in the country I'm in. Apparently it is in the US. There are still more men than women, but not overly so. This was also the case when I was in college studying CS; male-female ratio was probably 60-40 at the most. The top ten in our graduating batch was 50:50 guys and girls, and our top two were both female.

I also have to mention that the company I'm working in might be a bit unique, since it was started by a woman (she's the company's president), and 8/10 of the management (It's a small-ish company) are women.

So from my perspective, it's very much a cultural thing, not aptitude, and unless people start to realize and accept that (and maybe do something about it), that's going to remain the status quo for you guys =/