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Attracting Women Into Computer Science
Frisky070802 writes "U.S. News & World Report has an article about attracting women into Computer Science. '...That sense of isolation and inadequacy is one reason the number of women earning computer science degrees in this country has plummeted over the past two decades--with women dropping from 37 percent to 28 percent of graduates--at the very moment their presence in other scientific and engineering disciplines has soared. 'You look at the national statistics,' says Rick Rashid, senior vice president of research at Microsoft, 'and you just have to be appalled.'' It describes how some companies have even started summer camps to attract high school girls into high tech."
Just don't show them how we use that one-handed keyboard.
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How about just "Attracting women" for starters....
Well you know boys, a nuclear reactor is a lot like a woman. You just have to read the manual and press the right button.
Here is a quote from that HOW-TO:
3.3. Don't call people bitches
Using the word "bitch" (and several other words) is derogatory to women, no matter whom the word is referring to. I wouldn't have bothered to include this except that it's apparently not as obvious as I thought, as I have recently heard Linux developers use "bitch" in a serious manner with apparent nonchalance"
YA THINK??
I couldn't stop laughing when I read that...
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So you're saying it should be a man page?
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
Several women have recently informed me that I'm not nearly as creepy as I used to be!
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I resent that remark. Saying I have the people skills of a rat assumes that rats have people skills. I, sir, have the people skills of a phicus plant.
I'm in the hole of the broadband donut.
I would like to say that comparing the inept individuals of the IT field to rats is highly insulting. To the rats.
Speaking as someone who lives with several rats, and as someone who is also only too familiar with the denizens of the IT field (because I'm one of them) I can honestly say that I would prefer to socialise with the rats any day.
I mean, rats don't seem to feel the need to constantly womble over to me and remind me of their complete idiocy, in case I'd forgotten in the few minutes since they previously did it. Rats will sit quietly and lick my fingers. Admittedly I wouldn't want the IT guys to do that, but small furry mammals can get away with it. They both may try to steal my biscuits, but the rats take smaller quantities and seem to appreciate it more. They also both steal my pens and chew on them, but the rats seem to do it less, and can easily be distracted by a small piece of biscuit - and they don't claim they were 'just borrowing it' and accuse me of being overprotective of my stationery. Rats don't laugh/snort at their own bad jokes. Rats don't think that everyone in the world wants to hear their opinion on the latest developments in the Star Trek universe. They also don't think it's more important than anything else I could possibly be doing. And they don't tell me, whatever I'm doing, that I'm doing it wrong. Admittedly rats will occasionally chew through unprotected cables, which isn't something I can say I've seen the IT guys doing. But IT guys will occasionally steal, sorry, 'borrow' the cables, or unplug my computer, or delete my files, etc., so I think that balances out in the rat's favour.
And I can put rats in a cage, and they're not too bothered about it. IT guys complain if I shut them in the closet. Admittedly non-IT people complain about that too though. I should probably stop doing that.
Rats are also cleaner, better groomed, and smell less. A lot less. And I'm not kidding about that.
:-)
Except that even ficus plants seem to get girls to talk to them...
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