[SGVLUG] OT: Why aren't there more women in tech?

[John Kreznar]

In a message purporting to be from "juanslayton @dslextreme.com"
<juanslayton at dslextreme.com> but lacking a digital signature, it is
written:

> ... My daughter (Rebecca Marie Slayton) took her PhD at Harvard, but
> did most of her hands-on research at MIT. ... she has occasionally
> been the recipient of condescending treatment by male colleagues.  And
> by the media, which is a source of particular irritation.  Things are
> getting better, but it's still gonna take time.

Still, to deny the likelihood of a correlation between gender and
science aptitude, just as there is between most pairs of measurements of
human individuals, is, as Dustin says, to bend science.  Politically
correct, yes; true, not necessarily.

> I think the more serious question is, "Why aren't there more of
> _anybody_ going into tech?"  Nobody is going to get brownie points for
> scientific ignorance.

Yep.  Technical illiteracy has to go the way of illiteracy in natural
language.  Illiterates simply cannot cope in the modern world.

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