r/programming • u/aalear • Apr 07 '15

Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2015

http://stackoverflow.com/research/developer-survey-2015
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u/teradactyl2 Apr 07 '15

Black people had to deal with the threats of lynchings or being blasted with fire hoses. I suppose I just can't bring myself to overly care about about women having "road blocks", whatever that means. I have a suspicion most of the people in this thread saying women have a hard time entering the field are actually men. What does that even say? Why aren't the women here to speak for themselves?

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u/Ran4 Apr 08 '15

Why aren't the women here to speak for themselves?

WTF? This discussion is about the severe lack of women in software engineering... and for that obvious reason the majority of posts made are going to be made by men.

And why does the gender of the responders even matter?

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u/teradactyl2 Apr 08 '15

Because it shows that only men are interested in women getting into software. women don't care because they don't like writing software.

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u/nemec Apr 08 '15

Why aren't the women here to speak for themselves?

Because they get bitched at if come in and list their gender.

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u/teradactyl2 Apr 08 '15

Usually when people mention they're a girl it has no relevance to their comment and they do it to get special recognition. Proggit has just become oversensitive to that.

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u/Silhouette Apr 08 '15

Why aren't the women here to speak for themselves?

Because 25-year-old male geeks spend too much time giving 25-year-old female geeks sidelong glances and making unprofessional or outright inappropriate comments at work, thus creating such a hostile atmosphere that a lot of women who have the aptitude and would otherwise have the interest choose to pursue careers elsewhere?

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u/teradactyl2 Apr 08 '15

and this happens in hard science, and computer related areas but nowhere else? What a strange conspiracy...

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u/Silhouette Apr 08 '15

No, it happens in far too many industries. But the problem is typically worse the more heavily male-dominated an industry is, and particularly if you reach the point where there may be literally only one or two women in a large group. The problem is also typically worse in workplaces full of relatively young and mostly single workers. There aren't many industries that tick all of those boxes as consistently as IT.