I've taught maths at a few universities and until recently taught computing at a university, teaching algorithms etc (and am female if that is relevant!). I ended up recently at a talk at the university where they were talking about decolonising the computing curriculum.
One of the thing that I felt hadn't been taken into account was that as lecturers we are qualified to teaching computing/maths not to teach history/social sciences. I really didn't feel like I should be teaching history when I stopped learning history at school aged 15. The course I was teaching covered Turing machines and I'd feel very weird suddenly diverting into discussing that Turing was gay (but he's also a white male just to complicate things...). It all felt like a massive distraction from actually trying to teach the materials better.
I have to admit that when I was a student, it never really bothered me at all that all theorems were named after men (perhaps Noether got in there somewhere, but I really can't think of anybody else). They just felt like names to me and I was interested in the maths not the history. It had much more of an impact on me seeing female lecturers teaching and doing research.
One of the thing that I felt hadn't been taken into account was that as lecturers we are qualified to teaching computing/maths not to teach history/social sciences. I really didn't feel like I should be teaching history when I stopped learning history at school aged 15. The course I was teaching covered Turing machines and I'd feel very weird suddenly diverting into discussing that Turing was gay (but he's also a white male just to complicate things...). It all felt like a massive distraction from actually trying to teach the materials better.
I have to admit that when I was a student, it never really bothered me at all that all theorems were named after men (perhaps Noether got in there somewhere, but I really can't think of anybody else). They just felt like names to me and I was interested in the maths not the history. It had much more of an impact on me seeing female lecturers teaching and doing research.