Good post in whole, but part of #3 really caught my eye:
>>When I go to Kindergarten Moms Night and someone asks what I do, "computer programming" usually ends the conversation
I don't this is specific to women - I run into exactly the same thing talking about my tech job with friends, family, strangers, etc.
There's also always an underlying question that gets avoided in these types of articles - what's the "correct" percentage of people of a particular gender/race/whatever in a profession? Obviously we should aim for a society where no woman is pushed away from programming if that's what she wants to do, but is there any reason to think every job should match society demographically?
>>When I go to Kindergarten Moms Night and someone asks what I do, "computer programming" usually ends the conversation
I don't this is specific to women - I run into exactly the same thing talking about my tech job with friends, family, strangers, etc.
There's also always an underlying question that gets avoided in these types of articles - what's the "correct" percentage of people of a particular gender/race/whatever in a profession? Obviously we should aim for a society where no woman is pushed away from programming if that's what she wants to do, but is there any reason to think every job should match society demographically?