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0 pointsbriandear10y ago0 comments

But why should we force that "interest." If girls don't want to do it, why should we be "encouraging" it. We should encourage everyone to follow their passion and talents regardless of what those might be.

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lagadu10y ago

I agree with the original post, however the question here is something to the tune of: "do women not like it or are they being pushed away (passively) by social factors?"

If it's the former, then everything is fine, if it's the latter then there is room for improvement.

davmre10y ago

There's essentially no evidence that women are biologically predisposed against CS. There's quite a lot of evidence that social factors do push women away. That doesn't guarantee that there's no biological component, but even if there were, we'd still want to fix the social factors.

galtwho10y ago

I think the evidence is to the contrary as I mentioned in my earlier comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10372862

and the inferences from those evidence is that women are predisposed to studies that involve human interactions and very less evidence that social factors play a part...

infact it is in unequal societies( relatively speaking) where social factors play a part that forces women to consider professions like CS.

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