Answer by gbjbaanb for Declining Numbers of Women in Programming, What Can SO...
To address people who do not agree with the word diminishing. If you click on one of the links I provided or do a google search, it is a fact that the numbers of women in the field are diminishing.I'm...
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This answer opened my eyes.What if part of the disparity is because men are socially more inclined to deceive themselves, imagining that they're better at developing software than they are? Or more...
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Answer by jpmc26 for Declining Numbers of Women in Programming, What Can SO...
I don't have time to look over every aspect of your question, but I want to address this:it is a fact that the numbers of women in the field are diminishing.Not really. Your Google search cites...
View ArticleAnswer by peterh - Reinstate Monica for Declining Numbers of Women in...
I am not sure. My experience is that women are much less socially active in any community bound by IT, including Stack Overflow.By the company I am working for, their ratio is between 15-20%. In my...
View ArticleAnswer by Marco13 for Declining Numbers of Women in Programming, What Can SO...
It has been a difficult time since this question has initially been asked. That was back in 2015.Today, someone posted an an answer here. The answer was uninformed, shallow, and inconsiderate, and it...
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Answer by John Slegers for Declining Numbers of Women in Programming, What...
It is a misconception that women are underrepresented in science or STEM fields fields in general. The reality is that women have entered some STEM fields to the point where they are no longer...
View ArticleAnswer by user4842163 for Declining Numbers of Women in Programming, What Can...
I must admit that I'm also offended by the housewife joke in spite of being a male since my wife is a housewife, and she's probably overall a lot smarter than me. :-D I don't know what to do about this...
View ArticleAnswer by Giacomo1968 for Declining Numbers of Women in Programming, What Can...
Extremely high level thoughts.Reinforcing the concept of “always respect the original author.” is something that might be core to Stack Exchange philosophy, but heck if I can find that message conveyed...
View ArticleAnswer by Jon Ericson for Declining Numbers of Women in Programming, What Can...
In the United States, women are dramatically underrepresented in our industry from at least high school on. Not only that, but ratio has dropped from 38% in the 80s to roughly 20% now. Most professions...
View ArticleAnswer by user3956566 for Declining Numbers of Women in Programming, What Can...
I got this idea from Cerbrus' answerI believe we should all be treated equally and there seems to be a consensus on this.Given that the issue is NOT a flaw in SO, but is more complex, my original...
View ArticleAnswer by Cerbrus for Declining Numbers of Women in Programming, What Can SO...
I just realized this...A portion of the female users on SE feel, for one reason or another, uncomfortable to identify as "female" in their accounts.So, what already is a minority appears to consist of...
View ArticleAnswer by paul23 for Declining Numbers of Women in Programming, What Can SO...
Now this might be better a comment - but I feel one particular point in your edit quite faulty:To address people who do not agree with the word diminishing. If you click on one of the links I provided...
View ArticleAnswer by user308386 for Declining Numbers of Women in Programming, What Can...
Warning: This is a opinion post reflecting my personal opinion on the matter as a means to add to the discussion. If you disagree, please do so constructively. Im not opposed to changing my mind if...
View ArticleAnswer by devlin carnate for Declining Numbers of Women in Programming, What...
Let me chime in as a woman who does not want to hide my gender on this site. The whole notion that women should be treated differently because they are women is somewhat offensive to this woman who...
View ArticleAnswer by Kasra Rahjerdi for Declining Numbers of Women in Programming, What...
I'm just gonna throw some words out there because I've been thinking about this a lot.I think as a man in the industry, the best thing I can do is just to try to learn more about other people's...
View ArticleAnswer by Domino for Declining Numbers of Women in Programming, What Can SO...
I've never seen sexism on SO other than people assuming the gender of others. I tend to always use "them" when mentioning a user in a question because I don't like gender labeling. But apart from that,...
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Answer by Taryn for Declining Numbers of Women in Programming, What Can SO do...
What you are bringing up here isn't something that is discussed very often on Stack Overflow but it's something that I think about and I know others do as well. We want our sites to be welcoming to...
View ArticleAnswer by Kendra for Declining Numbers of Women in Programming, What Can SO...
It sucks that different forms of offensive behavior exists. But you know what rocks? How Stack Exchange feels about it.I'm approaching this from how I read your post: As a question of how we can...
View ArticleAnswer by ArtOfCode for Declining Numbers of Women in Programming, What Can...
What we should do......is not care about what people identify as. The only important identification to this site is that we all identify as some form of computer programmer (waits for someone to call...
View ArticleAnswer by NickJ for Declining Numbers of Women in Programming, What Can SO do...
I think it very unfortunate that software development has so few women, and I think the cause goes all the way back to how girls and boys are treated differently in early childhood, and gender roles...
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Edit Summary for the TLDRPeople are asking for a summary due to the enormity of this thread of posts and comments.In summary this post is to discuss the link of diminishing numbers of women in...
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