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Article #139Re: Why are women too dumb to program a computer???
From: Martin Gregorie
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 23:05
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 23:05
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John W. Kennedy wrote: > > I think you may be right that it's early adolescence. Almost every > single one of those female programmers of the early and middle 60s, > after all, must have been planning to do something else with their lives > when they were 13. > I think its much earlier than that. Conditioning starts at least with toddlers or earlier: when boys are given cars and girls are given dolls. Don't forget, too, that until late in the 19th century boys were educated and girls weren't - everybody *knew* that education was bad for girls because it made them willful and disobedient to parents and husbands. That was the case in Europe, America and for white colonists elsewhere. Other cultures have kept those attitudes much, much longer. -- martin@ | Martin Gregorie gregorie. | Essex, UK org |
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