#female programmers

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Elizabeth Betty Ryan

[netflixofficial]

So as a female in IT I'm lucky in that my team has a 50/50 gender split. Usually I don't even notice because it feels natural. But then at the all team meeting today when they were going through team recognitions I realized that a lot of the other teams aren't anywhere near as nicely split.

So now I'm wondering if it's strictly because of hiring managers or if different parts of IT are better at diversity? Anyone else in a company with a big IT division notice this?

My team and the others with a 50/50 split are mostly backends with a focus on databases and data transfer between assets.

[profeminist]

Source

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Silvrback is the best simple blogging platform for programmers that hosts writer blogs & provides simple, uncluttered writing spaces. It is the best blogging platform for programmers.

There is a serious dearth of female programmers in Silicon Valley and the numbers have not improved yet. There are various reasons for it. This Silvrback blog attempts to find out some of the reasons why there are so less number of women coders in the industry. These are points that have been discussed widely and are part of many other reasons as to why women don't get the same recognition as their male counterparts.

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Women's code rates better than men's, but is rejected when their gender is revealed

Talk about user error.

In what the authors are claiming is the largest-scale study of gender bias to date, researchers in the US have found that code written by female programmers is rated more highly than code written by men.

But this higher rating – based on code acceptance from other coders – is lost when female programmers publicly identify their gender online, with acceptance of their contributions then falling below the acceptance level of code written by men.

The findings suggest that female programmers may be better at what they do than their male counterparts, but that attitudes within the software community might be making it harder for them to have their contributions recognised and accepted – unless they're already known by collaborators, or elect to hide their gender, that is.

[profeminist]

“Mark Zuckerberg has the perfect response to people who tell girls to "date the nerd." #BeTheNerd”

As seen on the Lean In Facebook page

[princessashwie]

I'm super excited! I was asked today to go talk to girls at a local middle/high school to try and inspire girls to become interested in computer science/coding! For those of you who don't know, I am a female web application developer with a BS in Applied Computer Science. I was inspired and encouraged by both of my parents to get my degree in CS, and had some amazing male and female teachers along the way. This is something I am super passionate about and can't wait to talk to the girls and to try and inspire them to take that step if they would like to. I'm trying to figure out what I want to say, so any suggestions would be awesome! I really am having a hard time containing my excitement, and the fact that I get this opportunity just has me thrilled. I normally am terrified to talk in front of people, but right now I just can't wait!

[hogrammers]

Welcome to Hogrammers - Name Disclaimer

This blog was created to fight the ‘brogrammer’ culture, and the idea of IT becoming one big frat party. Because IT has turned from a geeky industry to a sexy one, it’s now attracting meat head ass clowns who think that it would be brilliant to make programming more macho.

 Everyone knows that the proportions of women in IT and other STEM fields are appalling. I chose the name ‘Hogrammers’ as retaliation against the glorification of stupidity in beautiful women and society’s encouragement of women to play dumb.

… actually I picked it when I asked (male) friends over beers what they would call a female programmer, and I thought it was funny.