I grew up playing "hide and seek" in the streets with both boys and girls. No money for dolls and computers were not around then (shows you my age!). However, I am an engineer and graduated In the 60s as the ONLY female in my class. Lonely! My girls grew up with every game choice in the market from Barbies to legos to computers. They chose the later. Maybe, it's because I was so disinterested with playing "house" with them (I hate housework). I loved taking them to museums and traveling together. Their father had a ball helping them build bridges with legos. We all played Pacman till I could not stand it any more when my 6 year old was beating me to a pulp. They are both grown up now and professionals in the computer industry. They both are avid computer game players (thank God they graduated from Pacman the music of which I still hear in my nightmares). One is an avid Quake player (I tried for years to influence her to stop playing that game and tend to her studies instead, to no avail), the other likes more Myst and other adventure games. They did get fed up with the gaming industry and decided to do something about it. They started their own gaming web site. They are not whiners, or Dykes (what a horrible thing to call anybody) or femintzies (however one spells this word), they are intelligent, young women who believe it or not want to make a difference.
Hopper established the proffession in the 60s, well before even IBM focused on programming as proffession (early 70s). And then, they rounded up every female who wanted to go to training school to become a programmer. I agree with you it is about people, however, it does not seize to amaze me when I hear the same old "women are not this or that or the third" things I have heard for over 35 years! give a break this is the the 21st century..
I don't know whether you are realy female and how old you are! However, for some of us who have been engineers and programmers all our adult lives, I resent you stipulation that women are "not logical enough" and all the rest of the garbage you are dishing out.. SPEAK for yourself! The whole programming industry was started by a woman, General Grace Hopper, before it became the "geek" thing to do for the males. Women flocked to programming back in the seventies.. They established the profession you so much enjoy today and THINK you ARE the chosen minority.. As for your comments on the article editor, I say "trash"...
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I grew up playing "hide and seek" in the streets with both boys and girls. No money for dolls and computers were not around then (shows you my age!). However, I am an engineer and graduated In the 60s as the ONLY female in my class. Lonely! My girls grew up with every game choice in the market from Barbies to legos to computers. They chose the later. Maybe, it's because I was so disinterested with playing "house" with them (I hate housework). I loved taking them to museums and traveling together. Their father had a ball helping them build bridges with legos. We all played Pacman till I could not stand it any more when my 6 year old was beating me to a pulp. They are both grown up now and professionals in the computer industry. They both are avid computer game players (thank God they graduated from Pacman the music of which I still hear in my nightmares). One is an avid Quake player (I tried for years to influence her to stop playing that game and tend to her studies instead, to no avail), the other likes more Myst and other adventure games. They did get fed up with the gaming industry and decided to do something about it. They started their own gaming web site. They are not whiners, or Dykes (what a horrible thing to call anybody) or femintzies (however one spells this word), they are intelligent, young women who believe it or not want to make a difference.
Hopper established the proffession in the 60s, well before even IBM focused on programming as proffession (early 70s). And then, they rounded up every female who wanted to go to training school to become a programmer. I agree with you it is about people, however, it does not seize to amaze me when I hear the same old "women are not this or that or the third" things I have heard for over 35 years! give a break this is the the 21st century..
Hey girl, I am with you......
not my girls...they grew up wit h legos and computers.. they are both programmers today..
Do you know a lot of computer games for girls and women?
I don't know whether you are realy female and how old you are! However, for some of us who have been engineers and programmers all our adult lives, I resent you stipulation that women are "not logical enough" and all the rest of the garbage you are dishing out.. SPEAK for yourself! The whole programming industry was started by a woman, General Grace Hopper, before it became the "geek" thing to do for the males. Women flocked to programming back in the seventies.. They established the profession you so much enjoy today and THINK you ARE the chosen minority.. As for your comments on the article editor, I say "trash"...