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Young Women Encouraged to Go For IT

Posted by Zonk on from the balancing-the-gender-spread dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Wednesday Microsoft Canada's vice president of developer and platform evangelism encouraged 9th grade girls to head for an IT career with a presentation that debunked key myths. Apparently IT isn't geeky or socially isolating. From the article: "Some issues (the girls) brought up included fears that their friends will think (working in IT) is a geeky thing to do, and that IT work is not very social...They were concerned that there were limitations for women in this area of technology, and they felt there is a stigma associated with IT in terms of it not being a very exciting place to work."

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  1. Not an IT stigma... by IO+ERROR · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    ...but there's definitely a negative stigma attached to working for Microsoft.

    Bad jokes aside, we need to encourage these girls to get into Linux, rather than Microsoft, thus saving them from Bill's evil influence as early as possible.

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    How am I supposed to fit a pithy, relevant quote into 120 characters?
  2. Re:Why force this on girls? by raahul_da_man · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I would challenge the truth of this statement. Women are innately inferior to men in any measurable quantity. Political correctness should not be allowed to stand in the way of hard reality. Just as the Japanese average the highest IQ for nations, so too do men average a higher IQ than women. And the results are obvious in both cases.

    Intelligence: Men average a higher IQ and SAT score, and they have a brain that is 100 grams bigger.

    SAT scores by Gender

    Female 1000

    Male 1042

    ALL TEST-TAKERS 1020

    Taken from http://www.fairtest.org/univ/2001SAT%20Scores.html

    http://www.ulm.edu/~palmer/Box5_runawaysex.htm

    In fact, after adjusting for differences in body size, males have about 100 grams more grey matter than females, a difference of about 8 per cent.

    Given that men have a larger brain, and better average IQ tests, if a field employs meritocratic selection process i.e selecting only the best, more males should come out on top. There is every reason to expect this, and no reason based in science, as opposed to political dogma, to expect otherwise.