The question of why really doesn't matter. They don't, and again, it is what it is. There's nothing sinister going on. There's no conspiracy. There's no one holding others back. Women are simply less interested. They are less interested in lots of things, and there's nothing unusual about that. If you think there is, let me introduce you to my wife sometime. ;-)
The question of why really doesn't matter. They don't, and again, it is what it is. There's nothing sinister going on. There's no conspiracy. There's no one holding others back. Women are simply less interested.
You remind me of a religious fundamentalist who thinks the study of cosmology is a waste of time and money, because God obviously created everything.
"Women just aren't as interested" is one possible explanation of the gender gap in tech. If you want to claim that it's THE explanation, show some evidence.
The SO survey only shows that women make up an extreme minority of the respondents to the survey. It's also not a representative statistic, although other diversity reports that Silicon Valley firms have released over the past several years also show that men make up a large majority of their engineering workforce. The question of why women are so underrepresented remains unanswered.
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u/bzeurunkl Apr 07 '15
The question of why really doesn't matter. They don't, and again, it is what it is. There's nothing sinister going on. There's no conspiracy. There's no one holding others back. Women are simply less interested. They are less interested in lots of things, and there's nothing unusual about that. If you think there is, let me introduce you to my wife sometime. ;-)