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Fullstack Launches Coding School For Women (sdtimes.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Fullstack is tackling technology's diversity problem in its latest venture. The coding schooling has announced a new coding school dedicated to women. Named after computer science pioneer Grace Hopper, the Grace Hopper academy aims to provide women with high-quality coding education, and won't ask for tuition until the student finds a job post-graduation. "Technology has become intrinsic in our daily routines, regardless of gender, but the tech industry remains exceedingly male-dominated," said David Yang, cofounder of Fullstack Academy. "We have always been inspired by innovation and it seems peculiar that an industry revolutionized by a pioneer like Grace Hopper would remain so divided along gender lines."
It's make dominated because males are more interested in the introverted nature of coding. An all-woman school doesn't solve that problem. Women have to want to code, has nothing to do with the culture.
Haven't we had enough of this SJW crap for the month?
Homelessness, suicide, prison, and all of the worst and most dangerous jobs.
Yknow what isn't male dominated?
Education, start to finish and top to bottom. Nearly 2/3rds of college graduates are women and women dominate virtually every single aspect of the education system from pre-K through college.
A bullet may have your name on it but splash damage is addressed "To whom it may concern."
wouldn't put up with the lack of vacation time. At the startup where I've worked for three years, we have three weeks a year, but I'm pretty sure no one has taken more than three days off in a year.
"We have always been inspired by innovation and it seems peculiar that an industry revolutionized by a pioneer like Grace Hopper would remain so divided along gender lines."
They say as they further divide the industry along gender lines. It's the new separate but equal.
Women generally don't want to code. That's why every SWJ brings up Grace Hopper as THE icon. Yeah, I know about the pic of the woman that coded the lunar landing and the code that's stacked taller than see is. So that's two.
Look people, most women don't want to code. It's ok. Nothing wrong with that. Stop forcing things because you think a 50/50 split is the only "fair" way.
Oh, and asking someone to pay afterwards only if she gets a job is a FANTASTIC economic plan.
I wonder what would happen if someone started a school specifically for men for a female dominated trade? For example hairdressing or nail painting?
How long would it take for someone to yell sexist at them and say that it is wrong and should not be allowed?
Double standards much?
They don't find a job in whatever field this outfit trained them for? What if they find a job, but don't like the work, quit, and find something else in another field? How long is Fullstack going to pester them about their employment? Or they going to line them up with some shady student loan corp that's going to charge them high interest rates and start calling them the day after they graduate?
For fuck's sake, you can't create gender equality out of thin air by just adding more gender segregation.... I mean, I get what they are trying to do... trying to "balance" the imbalance by adding more imbalance in what might superficially appear to be the opposite direction, but at the end of the day still amounts to people either being treated differently or feeling treated differently on account of some aspect of their person that should in actuality be entirely irrelevant to the subject at hand.
Whether a person is a man or woman should have absolutely no bearing on whether they are interested in computer programming or how competent at it they might be, and there should be absolutely no reason that a person's gender should *EVER* factor into what kind of computer science education options are available to them.
However idealistic the intentions might be behind this, I perceive that they are ultimately counterproductive to the long-term goal of gender equality.
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
But no boys allowed!
Where's the male-only coding school? Men are much better at programming*, and our future requires top coders. It's not popular**, but we should have a male exclusive school for coding. I know that the SJW crowd will do anything to avoid giving men a fair chance (because the men will achieve more, thus disrupting their narrative), but society will advance much faster if it could pull its head out of its ass about this and stop hunting down the very few male-only spaces- especially in vital areas of science and tech, where we need the BEST***.
*Yes, we all know about the rare exceptions that get trotted out. They aren't relevant- for each genius woman, you have like ten genius men.
**Posting as AC, obviously.
***The whole bell curve is shifted. The endless parade of excuses that gets trotted out whenever men excel over women starts with societal claims like "privilege" and "patriarchy"- unfalsifiable gods. Move your focus over to any of the fields where it's just all about thought, or all about capability (such that the societal excuses can't really work), and you'll see that it's all men again. Then they open the SJW handbook and you can hear the pages flipa-flipa-flip. Men are better at chess because, uh, chess doesn't matter. Men are better at math because, uh, all teachers are sexist (somehow?). Men are better at business because, uh, ALL INVESTORS are sexist (despite the fact that, if this were true, any rational investor would dump money at women owned businesses because they would be a vastly superior option that the sexist investors were missing). Excuse after excuse after excuse.
What if all this equality stuff was just a myth? What if maybe the baby boomer generation was like, wrong about this? What if there was some merit in the conclusion reached by every successful human society, in every region of the world, since before history started?
Better post as AC if you agree though. We have free speech, so you'll never work again if something like this gets tied to your real name.
More like segregation.
Back in the 50s we had white drinking fountains and drinking fountains for everyone else.
Now we have female drinking fountains and drinking fountains for everyone else.
Grace Hopper | Code of Conduct: "The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference (GHC) believes our community should be truly open for everyone. As such, we are committed to providing a friendly, safe and welcoming environment for all participants free from discrimination for any reason including on the basis of gender...."
You should be aware of this award winning research funded by the NSF wwhich shows that the war on women in tech is a total fabrication. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIFrV0P_XXA
It's OK to accommodate other beings because everybody has the right to succeed.
In my opinion and from my experience, men and women have somewhat different attributes when it comes to thinking, logic, and so on. Meanwhile, computers and computer languages were designed by large by men to be used by men.
Why not ease the ladies into coding by starting them off with computer languages that take advantage of how they think! For example, we can start them with this language: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coq
That way we can combine the strengths of the two 50% of the population!
Yes, it has stopped being a family friendly, well paying job, and turned into two separate domains: A cookie cutter menial job with long work hours, little job security (no unions, remember?) and high stress for boring "coding" tasks on one hand, and on the other hand a well paying profession that demands lots of complex knowledge and experience and has long work hours and high stress as well, and you still make less than your MBA boss. "Coincidentally" the proportion in business degrees is different, isn't it?
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Fullstack is tackling technology's diversity problem ...
What problem?
Yes, what a fantastic idea. Let's educate women in a way which doesn't prepare them for diversity in the workplace. Lets coddle them and treat them like they're special. Like they're victims. This is a disservice to everyone, and does more harm than good.
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The only thing that is regressive and ugly going on here is the fat that dipshits like you are inventing problems where they do not exist. Women are more than welcome to write software. Any woman who manages to excel at writing software will be celebrated. This idea that we have to fucking raise people above us simply because of their gender is ludicrous and wrong.
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There is an interesting quote in the NYTimes article which deftly elucidates this debate:
Within a few more years, he, Mr. Thiel, Mr. Rabois and others had transformed themselves into a close-knit network of technology entrepreneurs — innovators who created billion-dollar business after billion-dollar business, using the ideas, ethos and group bonds they had honed at The Stanford Review.
Many of the entrepreneurial successes came from being part of a group of a network of other successful people. Rightly or wrongly, this is a fairly accurate way the world works. It's not so much what you know, but who you know. Segregation changes the dynamic of who you know and hurts more than it helps. Also from the article:
Scott Walker, one of the only African-Americans in the class to try founding a start-up, said in an interview that he regretted spending so much time at his all-black fraternity, which took him away from the white friends from freshman year who went on to found and then invest in technology companies.
While it is possible that Fullstack can create a group of women which will be successful in helping one another succeed, I'm not convinced that doing it by teaching computer programming is the best route. If a majority of modern companies hired from within and filtered up skilled employees into CXX positions, one could make the argument that in 20-30 years there would be a better balance of men and women in leadership roles. However, that isn't how it currently works. The—for a lack of a better phrase—"Chairman Class" currently dominates the leadership roles in business and hop from company to company. So, now, you have a large group of self-segregating people who have opted out of being part of that class, and likely will not make the contacts required to succeed in business. This could very well make the problem worse, not better.
Can men join this school or not?
>can you explain the reason for the sharp change in gender ratios in the profession over a short time span?
Programming jobs get ever more mundane. More grind, less respect, less career opportunities. Smart people who plan for the future, prefer to look elsewhere. And women tend to plan for the future.
What's "woman-y" about it? (insert misogynist "does it have" + $sterotypical_female_attributes_and_behaviour sentences here)
Isn't that the wrong message? I mean, would you feel comfortable going to a school that was specifically made for you because you're, to use the current euphemism for retarded, "special"? You need a special school, you're so special...
And how would a prospective employer look at it? "Ohhhh, you graduated from "special" school... yeeeeah.... you know, no need to call us, we'll call you"
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
I have totally had it with this nu-sexism. As of this month it's apparently totally hip since reports of such incidents now end up on my timeline on a daily basis. Is the world is trying to become some sort of reverse Saudi Arabia or something?!
0x or or snor perron?!
Funny how this is modded troll... Here's a great documentary for educating the moderator(s). Or anybody else; it really is a great documentary on the subject.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
0x or or snor perron?!
THings that focus only on one sex are discriminatory. Imagine if a school for men were announced.
Exactly why the NAACP is allowed to operate but a whites-only organization would not be astounds me.
How it's possible for something like this to exist in a time when equality is on everyone's mind is beyond me.
It's hardly equal when your gender is a qualifier. I wish I had an opportunity to learn a skill and only pay for the tuition when it's earning me some money. But no, there are fewer women in CS so it must be because of all the men in CS...
Oy vey..
I see it as a useful marker: Attended this school? Don't hire at any cost. Risk to get a destructive feminazi is just too high.
This attempt to fix the perceived problem is quite flawed, because it skips the very, very important of determining why they don't want or can code in first place, and if it is an issue at all.
I would argue that nursing and teaching are more intrinsic and important to our daily lives.
Get back to when we have all-male tacher training colleges.
Until then, this remains a euphemism for "too many [white] men."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SW_u8Tn70fk
Then I wish you wouldn't act like men should have no rights based on the acts of, as you say, crazy wingnuts...
I've found that you can tell what kind of person someone is by whether or not they use 'MRA' as a slur. If they have a negative reaction to the phrase "men's rights", I have yet to see one who wasn't hypocritical when it comes to equality.
Look people, most women don't want to code. It's ok. Nothing wrong with that. Stop forcing things because you think a 50/50 split is the only "fair" way.
Then this private business won't get any students and will quickly fold, right?
Why are you and the mods so angry?
Will it teach sewing, home economics, and typing? Heh heh heh
Also, Grace Hopper hated feminists (she called them Women's Lib - it was so long ago they were almost relevant) with a passion. She thought the best way for women to succeed in tech was to actually make an effort, not complain about mistreatment.
She was probably also a Republican, who supported the military.
It's a pretty clear sign that only a woman with internalised misogyny (e.g. one who holds herself to the high standards men are expected to achieve in tech) is capable of actually succeeding in a big way.
Any woman who manages to excel at writing software will be celebrated
Yep, and no one will ever claim that a woman is a fake because she's too attractive to be a programmer. Never mind there was exactly a story on that the other day right here. Just go on pointing out that people saying truthful things you don't like are "dipshits".
SJW n. One who posts facts.
Teachers are paid like crap and treated worse. It's like how nerds view Game Programming. Every little girl wants to do it so the employees can be abused. It doesn't help that if you're a college bound kid fresh out of high school with no idea what to do in life it seems like a great idea. You cling to what you already know so you want to stay in school forever.
When I worked in call centers there were tons of elementary & junior high teachers (with degrees) looking for work. Many with years of experience. The math science teachers had a touch less trouble finding work, but the elementary were screwed. We've been cutting education since Reagan so it makes sense. The teachers I know who are doing well are all really house wives working part time for extra cash. And we all know how undergraduates are getting screwed. Basically if you need to make enough money to support a family then you're not going to be a teacher in America.
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It doesn't matter if you have a penis or not, going into tech right now is a fool's game. They do their best to outsource all of those jobs. The only reason the industry wants women to get into tech is that they want more humans to get into tech to keep the supply high and the wages low.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
If women don't want to code then why do they complain about sexism in CS?
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
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Because that's all their gender studies degree is good for: complaining about "problems" that they invent.
"Where are the MRAs setting up homeless shelters, suicide prevention schemes or education and training to get men out of those dangerous jobs into better ones?"
Just like people who set up women's shelters (i.e., men and women, "feminist" or not), people work on setting up regular homeless shelters, suicide prevention schemes and ... not training, but standards, regulations, unions and lawsuits against companies with unsafe practices. Nobody should care about their gender or if those people call themselves "feminists" or MRAs.
And what makes you think that feminists can't also be men's rights activists?
Seriously, stop treating women like special-needs children who are helpless and confused and in dire need of "adult" guidance.
This kind of thing (ostensibly done with the best of intentions) treats them as if they don't have the intelligence to make their own choices and decisions concerning their career path.
What these "women only" courses and programs are saying essentially is that women are too fragile or delicate or sensitive to survive in the usual job/school environment, which is kind of insulting if you think about it at all.
The vast majority of women I know are intelligent, capable people who would do just fine if special interest groups would just stop treating them like not-too-bright babies in a room full of sharp objects.
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
Nothing I like better than a fully stacked woman.
Oh, wait, you mean this is about coding?
Never mind.
and won't ask for tuition until the student finds a job post-graduation
What does this mean? Is it a disguised student loan?
Putting aside the gender issues, are there more details about this? Depending on the fine print, this can be very bad. Maybe I am a bit paranoid but if there is a clause like "if you refuse some job offer, then you need to pay", that's bordering slavery.
It's not that women are not interested in technology. It's that men are assholes in a learning environment.
This is the same argument why Curves gym exist. Or Planet Fitness.
IT folks are bunch of little childish assholes constantly trying to one-up each other.
Why Women Stopped Coding
And please, stop talking on behalf of women and what women think or want. It sounds exactly like anti-abortionists telling us what's best for our bodies.
"But those debates did a great deal for Mr. Sacks. After graduation, he and Mr. Thiel published 'The Diversity Myth,' a book-length critique of Stanford’s efforts. Within a few more years, he, Mr. Thiel, Mr. Rabois and others had transformed themselves into a close-knit network of technology entrepreneurs — innovators who created billion-dollar business after billion-dollar business, using the ideas, ethos and group bonds they had honed at The Stanford Review...
PayPal had a hard time hiring women, Max Levchin, another co-founder, later told a class at Stanford, 'because PayPal was just a bunch of nerds! They never talked to women. So how were they supposed to interact with and hire them?... The notion that diversity in an early team is important or good is completely wrong,' he added. 'The more diverse the early group, the harder it is for people to find common ground.'"
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/12/23/us/gender-gaps-stanford-94.html
We know where leadership by an anti-intellectual "strongman" who scapegoats minorities and likes boisterous rallies goes
Named after computer science pioneer Grace Hopper, the Grace Hopper academy
You mean to tell me a academy named after Grace Hopper is named after Grace Hopper? What in the world?!
Sorry, had to be said!
The idea that women or girls being uninterested in getting jobs in engineering due to masoganistic workplaces or hiring practices is putting the cart 10 years ahead of the horse.
I will definitely be telling exactly zero women about using this.
I mean, coding is coding. You do it right, or wrong. I'm a little unclear about how gender relates here.
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That was a random comment via Twitter, wasn't it? I think everyone knows that the internet can be extremely toxic. People say all sorts of nasty shit when they're anonymous, especially regarding women. That's a real issue that we need to work on as a society, but I think it's a different issue than discrimination in the workplace.
To me, the important question is: does she feel discriminated against in any way at work because she's a woman? According to her tagline for the ad in question, she appeared to think her team was awesome and smart. That doesn't sound like someone fighting discrimination at work to me.
I'm not saying discrimination against women doesn't happen. I just don't believe that discrimination alone could explain the massive gender gap we see. Why would programmers be so much more institutionally sexist than other white-collar professions in which there's a closer gender balance (say, doctors)? It just doesn't make any sense to me.
Irony: Agile development has too much intertia to be abandoned now.
Yeah because elitism among nerds is strictly a man > woman issue.
Nerds drop a "no true Scotsman" at the drop of a fedora, you're reading way too much into it.
I honestly thought that said "fullsack launches coding school for women" and thought it was a poor choice of naming...
You know I couldn't really visualize exactly how the tech environment is volatile for women to enter into. That is until I read these Slashdot comments. Sexist much? This article has apparently attracted insecure men in droves and ironically shows why such a school may be helpful.
Special classes, schools, etc, for women. Lots of interest for a year or two, then it just peters out and is cancelled for lack of interest. Don't see this being any different.
Does it seem peculiar that a branch of physics revolutionized by a pioneer like Marie Curie would remain so divided along gender lines?
What an utter load of bollocks. Or if you prefer, in the spirit of inclusivity, gonads.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Naturally, the new venture will be named "Stacked."
Look at your own assumptions: "any woman who manages to EXCEL at writing software will be celebrated."
How many men do actually EXCEL at writing software?
Not many. It's a thumb rule in any dev team: for 10 coders you have 1 good, 8 so-so, 1 bad...
And nobody tells the "so-so" that they should do better.
But if you are a woman, if you don't EXCEL, oh! How much shit you're going to have to deal with. I'm not a woman but I have observed work relationships with some distance and I can tell you that. If you're a man and only "so-so" good at coding, nobody is going to tell you you got the job because you were cute, or that you got the promotion because you blew the manager, or that you were hired because there are "not enough men in the workforce."
Reality is, we hire women for basically the same reasons we hire men: because there is some work to do. Reality is, most men and women are only "so-so" good at doing their job. Reality is, women have to be very good to be respected by their male peers, whereas men need only to be "so-so" good to be left alone.
Guys! Seriously, you praise yourselves to be scientific and objective, how come it is impossible for you to see this?
What would you say if the mason you hired spent 7 hours out of 8 repairing his concrete mixer instead of building your walls? And apart from losing his/her time and efforts to maintain his/her computers, today’s developer has the extra benefit that s/he is building on quicksands.
I wish women could bring back some common sense in this industry.
Women aren't 60% of CompSci graduating classes and I don't know anyone that's programming professionally that didn't get a degree of some sort (well, maybe some of the H1B's just got their parents to buy them one and it shows).
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I'm getting tired about all this female/women stuff. What about us men??? What about Prostate Cancer awareness? I barely see anything about male awareness stuff unless it involves Viagra...
I'm still waiting for the all-male school of nursing.
What sharp change? You mean the change from when women were data entry people in the 60's lol? Sorry but CS has been driven almost exclusively by men since it's inception and a handful of exceptions doesn't change that.
You are partially right. I've worked with some women in tech and they were mediocre but then so are most men I have worked with.
The thing is that in this climate a mediocre woman can quickly climb the corporate ladder much more easily.
Oh please. Stop trying to read things in to what I've said to suit your fantasy narrative. The point is that people who do well in something will get recognized for it regardless of gender. If you're mediocre nobody will care about your name, regardless of gender.
This is the real problem - a very few people want to be recognized as rockstars when they haven't earned it. Instead of just proving they're capable like anyone else would, they take up a podium and shout discrimination.
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Nothing being said by those people is true. It's a result of the next wave of pseudo-feminists attempting to shame the population in to action with a bullshit narrative. Yes, people who do that, and more importantly people who support the people doing that are dipshits.
The problem with screaming "discrimination!" over everything is that you devalue the word. This is unfair to people who actually DO get discriminated against. Have you ever been to a feminist rally? You should try it some time. The ideas that get spread at these events are more toxic than anything I could say or do here.
I've known quite a few successful female programmers in my time. Yes, even during those "unenlightened" days when nobody was crying wolf over such things. Those who were intelligent and hard working had no problem getting ahead. I'm sorry, but you shouldn't get ahead just because if what's between your legs. It doesn't work that way for men, it shouldn't work that way for women.
Feminism used to fight real injustice. Independence for women. The right to vote. The right to be considered equal. These were worthy objectives that anyone should fight for. However the modern variant is overstepping. Instead of equal rights, they want undeserved privilege.
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From my experience I have learned that if people are good at coding (or whatever) it is because they are naturals at it and get pleasure from the activity (flow), not because somebody held their hand.
The number of women in CS has not gone down, it's the number of men in CS that has skyrocketed as "easy money". The ratio has shifted.
I swear the only things I ever hear coming out of Twitter are crybabies crying about something or trolls trolling crybabies about something. What a completely idiotic "social network". If they want to increase their userbase they should make it sound like you can use Twitter without getting fired because all I hear about are "bad things" happening to people who Tweet stupid shit. Moreover, if I have to stop and ponder ever Tweet for a half-hour before hitting send lest someone's sensibilities be offended, then might as well just type a damn email old school style.
There are laws against discrimination based on gender among other things, right, passed by these same idiots? Not that I think this _should_ be illegal. But it is, AFAIK, and the laws should be used aggressively against the people who asked for them.
I hate to say it but.. because women are smarter. Only low self esteem men put up with the kind of horrible shit the average coder puts up with these days, including being bullied by High Alpha Fratbros and Sorority Sisters that are quickly becoming the "new management" of Silicon Valley. Women? Fuck that. "Oh shit, I got pregnant, I'm outta here, fuck this shit." At least that's my observation. it takes a certain kind of loser to sit there and get shoveled shit to eat with a smile day after day after day.
And remember, recently the most important thing to come out of Silicon Valley is the attitude that we only need you until we don't, so fuck you from management (Netflix). I mean, it's always been there, but before they used to at least pretend that you were valuable and try to move people around, but now? The day the project is done, hope you have your resume ready because your ass is hitting the streets. And that was brought here from Netflix by a woman, who lost her job the same way.
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If women don't want to code then why do they complain about sexism in CS?
A small subset of women want to code, but the majority don't seem to. A majority of the women complaining about sexism in CS don't care about CS, they only care about sexism. A subset of those women don't actually give two shits about CS, they just like to complain about men and this is an opportunity to blame them for something.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
To be fair, if you spend two hours every morning dressing up to go to work to program, your personality is probably not one compatible with being a great programmer. Most of the super great programmers have a personality of "take me as I am or GTFO". Of course I'm not a " super great", but I do believe I'm above average. I still need to be at least marginally concerned about my appearance. I shower and wear clean clothes, and about once a month I shave. That seems good enough for me.
Are the courses different for women? Do they learn how to code differently? I fail to understand why women need a special school for that. The problems lie entirely in a different spot. Women are discounted in a male or better to say macho dominated industry. It would be more fruitful to create a school that teaches management professionals how to diversify the workforce and how to accept people for their skill rather than base acceptance on gender. In the end men and women need to learn how to code in probably the same way and acquire the same skills.
I believe women r as capable as men, except in certain physiological domains.
But for all this feminist bullshit needs to be taken to task. Why doesn't Marissa Meyer, Sheryl Sandberg, Meg Whitman etc put their money where their mouth is. Each put $50m into a VC fund. Only hire female vc partners. Only invest in female run companies. They will triple their money since women r underpaid and more capable. Then they can gloat about how unequal they are. Also other VCs will go wow and start up similar female only funds and be rich. Then everyone's happy.
In today's hyper-politicized environment, perhaps separate but equal will help. Probably not.
Science and reason tell us that the primates have fairly observable and significant sexual dimorphism. The hormonal differences are obvious. The males tend to be more aggressive, the females more passive, and we can observe the mind games they play with each other as they seek fun, companionship, pleasure, and power.
There's a reason that mormons, asians, and jews tend to score very highly in testing and are therefore desirable recruiting targets for job creators. The military and the old Hughes Aircraft have a documented record of recruiting and promoting Mormons -- they are very reliable in stress tests. Can't hand the keys to a nuclear sub or silo to just anybody.
Nurturing, in the form of family and discipline, is a major issue in our country. Some people can be trusted with nuclear keys, some are euthanized or caged for life, others fight deadly turf battles over lucrative gang territory. We yammer on and on about dealing with the mentally ill, but the answer seems to be right in front of our noses -- we spend boatloads on nurturing and social programs, yet we have wildly divergent results. It's measured and obvious.
Politicizing centuries old, legacy issues in an election season is a major problem, but overall, decriminalizing same sex behavior and opening combat to all patriots will be a major force towards restoring the Bill of Rights, the Constitution, and the Meritocracy over the longer term.
The progressives claim to have broken new ground, but women have fought to the death, or emerged victorious throughout history, and certainly same sex has been present for ages. An F-22 test pilot flew at a local airshow several years ago, and her credentials and accomplishments listed on the program were nothing short of spectacular. The moral majority, evangelical, egg and sperm worshipping cult has certainly poisoned many debates on these issues.
"We the People" has been a struggle from the European slave colonies forward, and we need to accept our history and forge ahead. How many people remember that Herbert Hoover was a science and reason Quaker, architected the original social programs for those in crisis, was crucified in the NYC millionaire controlled press, and worked tirelessly to feed destitute Europeans in WW-2. Many only remember "Hoovervilles". It's all been twisted into a massive vote buying scheme.
A lot of the inequality probably traces to the tax and spend debacle as well. The 4 M. words of IRS Tax code appear to have been added, over the 100 years since the organization was created, as a means to hide spending on the revenue side, bypassing the Congressional oversight that comes along with appropriations. The nonpartisan CBO and IRS TAO have both testified that the current situation is unsustainable. We really should fix it.
Trump 2016 should quickly move to replace much of the executive cabinet hierarchy with cost-plus, performance based contracting -- the same science and reason based methodology used by the DoD and NASA -- and reform the IRS back into a revenue organization. Corporations like Apple, Google, Alphabet, HP, and IBM could quickly Make America Great Again.
Women generally don't want to code. That's why every SWJ brings up Grace Hopper as THE icon. Yeah, I know about the pic of the woman that coded the lunar landing and the code that's stacked taller than see is. So that's two.
Look people, most women don't want to code. It's ok. Nothing wrong with that. Stop forcing things because you think a 50/50 split is the only "fair" way.
Oh, and asking someone to pay afterwards only if she gets a job is a FANTASTIC economic plan.
And no-one has asked *why* they "don't want to code"? It's in the sweet spot of well-paying without being construction/trades manual labor - you'd think a decent proportion of office clerk / admin ass't / secretary workers would love to move into that space.
And asking to pay afterwards is a great move - that's signalling that they're confident enough that women programmers will find jobs that they're willing to bet their own money on that market existing.
"We have always been inspired by innovation and it seems peculiar that an industry revolutionized by a pioneer like Grace Hopper would remain so divided along gender lines."
So they're going to fix gender-division by... opening a new school and offering pretty substantial benefits, that you can only enjoy if you're one gender? That's a great way to make it not about gender... reminds me of the old joke, it seems kinda like screwing for virginity. Not that this is a new thing, but I haven't seen it so perfectly juxtaposed against a quote that says the total opposite so perfectly.