From 7b5632f478d5d058001332fa9701a49ab3829034 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tomas Lycken Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2015 07:16:24 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Women aren't unintelligent Before this change, the end of this paragraph made it seem like you think women are unintelligent - the implied meaning was that *if* programming actually *was* the most intellectually demanding task imaginable, *then* it would be reasonable to assume women couldn't be as good as men. I believe (hope) that this is really not what you meant; this change makes that much more clear. --- index.html | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/index.html b/index.html index 5ea19c6..9928576 100644 --- a/index.html +++ b/index.html @@ -696,7 +696,7 @@

Famous women in coding history


It’s all happening very late in the boom, though. In 2014 some companies began to release diversity reports for their programming teams. It wasn’t a popular practice, but it was revealing. Intel is 23 percent female; Yahoo! is 37 percent. Apple, Facebook, Google, Twitter, and Microsoft are all around 30 percent. These numbers are for the whole companies, not only programmers. That’s a lot of women who didn’t get stock options. The numbers of people who aren’t white or Asian are worse yet. Apple just gave $50 million to fund diversity initiatives, equivalent to 0.007 percent of its market cap. Intel has a $300 million diversity project.

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The average programmer is moderately diligent, capable of basic mathematics, has a working knowledge of one or more programming languages, and can communicate what he or she is doing to management and his or her peers. Given that a significant number of women work as journalists and editors, perform surgery, run companies, manage small businesses, and use spreadsheets, that a few even serve on the Supreme Court, and that we are no longer surprised to find women working as accountants, professors, statisticians, or project managers, it’s hard to imagine that they can’t write JavaScript. Programming, despite the hype and the self-serving fantasies of programmers the world over, isn’t the most intellectually demanding task imaginable.

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The average programmer is moderately diligent, capable of basic mathematics, has a working knowledge of one or more programming languages, and can communicate what he or she is doing to management and his or her peers. Given that a significant number of women work as journalists and editors, perform surgery, run companies, manage small businesses, and use spreadsheets, that a few even serve on the Supreme Court, and that we are no longer surprised to find women working as accountants, professors, statisticians, or project managers, it’s hard to imagine that they can’t write JavaScript. Programming, despite the hype and the self-serving fantasies of programmers the world over, isn’t the most intellectually demanding task imaginable. And even if it was, that's no reason woment aren't be as capable as men.

Which leads one to the inescapable conclusion: The problem with women in technology isn’t the women.

From 81d5f7f719ac002d4133a0fe09219bec2c21591b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tomas Lycken Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2015 11:28:03 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Remove the controversial sentence alltogether After coming back to read this again, I realized this is probably fixed better by just removing the offending sentence alltogether. I don't think any value is lost this way, but there is now no way to read this paragraph as if it means that the author claims women are stupid. --- index.html | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/index.html b/index.html index 9928576..fef9718 100644 --- a/index.html +++ b/index.html @@ -696,7 +696,7 @@

Famous women in coding history


It’s all happening very late in the boom, though. In 2014 some companies began to release diversity reports for their programming teams. It wasn’t a popular practice, but it was revealing. Intel is 23 percent female; Yahoo! is 37 percent. Apple, Facebook, Google, Twitter, and Microsoft are all around 30 percent. These numbers are for the whole companies, not only programmers. That’s a lot of women who didn’t get stock options. The numbers of people who aren’t white or Asian are worse yet. Apple just gave $50 million to fund diversity initiatives, equivalent to 0.007 percent of its market cap. Intel has a $300 million diversity project.

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The average programmer is moderately diligent, capable of basic mathematics, has a working knowledge of one or more programming languages, and can communicate what he or she is doing to management and his or her peers. Given that a significant number of women work as journalists and editors, perform surgery, run companies, manage small businesses, and use spreadsheets, that a few even serve on the Supreme Court, and that we are no longer surprised to find women working as accountants, professors, statisticians, or project managers, it’s hard to imagine that they can’t write JavaScript. Programming, despite the hype and the self-serving fantasies of programmers the world over, isn’t the most intellectually demanding task imaginable. And even if it was, that's no reason woment aren't be as capable as men.

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The average programmer is moderately diligent, capable of basic mathematics, has a working knowledge of one or more programming languages, and can communicate what he or she is doing to management and his or her peers. Given that a significant number of women work as journalists and editors, perform surgery, run companies, manage small businesses, and use spreadsheets, that a few even serve on the Supreme Court, and that we are no longer surprised to find women working as accountants, professors, statisticians, or project managers, it’s hard to imagine that they can’t write JavaScript.

Which leads one to the inescapable conclusion: The problem with women in technology isn’t the women.