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| Sandra Bullock playing the part of a world class hacker. |
Have you ever pictured the hacker being a woman? We all know that characters like the one Sandra Bullock played in "The Net" are too good to be true, or are they? Woman and men are different. Our minds are different. Why are a large majority of gay men involved in musical theater? Why are they gay? When answers to these types of questions begin to become unreachable things turn political. So why are there less woman in computer science? Well, women might just possibly be less interested in the field in general. But this doesn't answer the question. When a certain sex is a minority in a certain field of study people freak out, for surely discrimination was on the move. That or women simply prefer other fields of study more. I do feel that there are less women in computer science because they are less familiar with computers in general. Men like football more then woman. Men like computers more than women. I believe that as computer science becomes part of the k-12 standard curriculum that we'll see more women come into the computer science world but that men will still dominate the field. However, I don't think the world will ever fully understand, on a scientific level, why men and women are so different. We should all hail to Paul McCartney's words when he sang, "Let it be. Let it be. Let it be, oh let it be."
I agree. Women and men think differently, and because of that they tend to have different interests. Putting CS is K-12 could change that though.
ReplyDeleteAs long as women are given the same opportunities as men to enter and advance in any field, then there's nothing wrong with there being more men or women in a particular field. I'm not entirely convinced we've reached that stage though. I hope we do eventually; women often have different perspectives than men, and a diversity of opinions and perspectives working on the name project tends to make it more robust in the long run.
ReplyDeleteCertainly innate difference plays a part. But there are still definitely other barriers standing in the way of women entering computer science. For example, I find that a number of guys (and girls) in this major tend to treat everyone like they're stupid until proven otherwise. Everyone, me included, could afford to consider the things they say a little more thoroughly.
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