for anybody who still can't make out what gender bias is, and how it affects computing, try this. In the comments to this article, as of the time that I wrote this comment, 6 people talked about teaching their sons to use computers. In the same amount of time, only ONE person talked about teaching their daughter. Given the equal chances of having a son or a daughter, this just shows how skewed technical encouragement is along gender lines.
for anybody who still can't make out what gender bias is, and how it affects computing, try this. In the comments to this article, as of the time that I wrote this comment, 6 people talked about teaching their sons to use computers. In the same amount of time, only ONE person talked about teaching their daughter. Given the equal chances of having a son or a daughter, thi just shows how skewed technical encouragement is along gender lines.
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If I wanted to hear the lobbying of the right-wing political equivalent of Mindcraft, I would spend more time in the mainstream media.
/. needs more people researching the backgrounds of some of these stories. Or perhaps I'm expecting too much.
Read some of the other "reports" they publish.
What did you expect them to say?
Also, people seem to think that taxes get taken by the government and then thrown out the window.
Tax dollars started the ARPA net, provide education, and, if you live in a halfway civilized country, free health insurance.
Maybe
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for anybody who still can't make out what gender bias is, and how it affects computing, try this. In the comments to this article, as of the time that I wrote this comment, 6 people talked about teaching their sons to use computers. In the same amount of time, only ONE person talked about teaching their daughter. Given the equal chances of having a son or a daughter, this just shows how skewed technical encouragement is along gender lines.
for anybody who still can't make out what gender bias is, and how it affects computing, try this. In the comments to this article, as of the time that I wrote this comment, 6 people talked about teaching their sons to use computers. In the same amount of time, only ONE person talked about teaching their daughter. Given the equal chances of having a son or a daughter, thi just shows how skewed technical encouragement is along gender lines.
I hope women are in the future too, not just "mankind".
And before anybody gets on their "im tired of all the PC rules" high horse, it's not about PC, it's not about rules, it's about respect.
You're male, aren't you. I mean to say that this kind of "it's not that bad" thinking usually comes from people who it's not likely to happen to.
You are male, aren't you?
I appreciate your empathy, as far as it goes, but this is still the way these trials very very often go, both in and out of the courtroom.