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Women of the computing world

Started by Redaktion, August 14, 2020, 00:08:24

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Redaktion

Despite making up more than 50% of the world's population, women fill only a quarter of jobs in the tech sector. The truth is, however, that women have filled important roles and helped significantly to advance computer engineering since its inception.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Women-of-the-computing-world.483883.0.html

itsvipa

Lisa Su of AMD? Breaking the glass ceiling at the very top of a computing giant (one of the very reasons you mentioned women being less noticed), and leading a great modern day turnaround at AMD?

Dice

Hm, I thought there had been pretty much no women in computing until maybe the 90s or 2000s because I had never heard of any.
Seems like they were part of computer creation from the beginning though. That's good to know. ^^

winston

It's great that women were part of computing from the early days. But if most women aren't interested in IT, then it is their right not to be interested in it. There is absolutely no obligation to distribute any sector equally in terms of gender.

Alexander Fagot

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Whamzer9000


Wop

There are more women in computing in poor countries. In fact, gender distribution approaches parity as societal standards drop. There was also substantially more women in computing in the 80s, up to a peak of about 1/3rd. Then the data shows that women in these fields dropped off as time went on, despite an ever increasing amount of gender equality. The same phenomenon is observed in nordic european countries, where gender equality index measures their highest in the world. Where there is more equality, women tend to move away from STEM careers. The data to date is fully inconsistent with the idea of remediable gender inequality, but is fully consistent with a difference in personality and divergence in career interests where people are free to choose what they really like.

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