Number of Female Programmers: US & Worldwide - Answers Here

[rootX]

Maybe inconsistent with the teeny-bopper males, but things are results-oriented here in Silicon Valley. Maybe some more comments from Si Valley?

You should provide some credible source to back up the claim that woman have equal share in the Silicon Valley programming jobs, or please elaborate.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/24/BULF149J4V.DTL&type=tech

Yes I would agree that women are equally capable. There is no difference between productive men/women.

Personally, I am unconcerned about the participation of men/women in technological sector.

 

[rootX]

Ah, I understand now.

I never cried in school, and I never saw any of my fellow female students cry. In fact I never remember even asking anyone for help, and I never remember seeing any of my (very few) fellow female students play "helpless victim" to get help. All were very smart, strong, and capable. So your experience is nothing like mine.

I don't think any of them is in the top 10% of the class (But we did have quite a lot girls from other years/classes in the Dean's Honors list etc). They don't play "helpless victims" intentionally but just are helpless victims unfortunately. I wish my class had smarter girls.

 

[Math Is Hard]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/24/BULF149J4V.DTL&type=tech

This article is about senior management jobs at tech companies, not necessarily programming jobs.

 

[kldickson]

If female programmers are generally less skilled or less passionate about CS than their male counterparts, what logical reason is there to give them the same salary? You could use a hand-waving argument regarding "equality", but males and females are clearly not equal in almost every respect. Interest in physics and CS is one of them.

Now, mind you, I'm not saying that female programmers aren't as skilled; I simply don't know whether that is true. If it's true, however, and if a company decides it's true, arguments involving equality are moot.

You can't generalize from the group to an individual.

This is a sexist assumption to make.

 

[kldickson]

In addition, there is no indication that female programmers are less skilled than their male counterparts in physics and computer science.