Mark Welch
Aug 8, 2017 · 1 min read

“why force unattainable 50/50 gender ratio if individuals partly influenced by biology do not want to be a coders?”

This still presupposes that women are biologically less predisposed to code. There’s no hard evidence, anywhere, to support this. If anything, the early history of computing was dominated by women (such as Grace Hopper) until men decided that writing software was challenging and lucrative, and began pushing women out of the field by various means (see When Women Stopped Coding).

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