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Re: [News] The Self-Taught Male Stereotype

On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 17:21:22 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:

> The Hidden Engineering Gender Gap
> 
> ,----[Quote  ]
>| ...In The Hidden Engineering Gap, she asks why there are so many
>| self-taught male software engineers in startups, but no similar
>| pool of women. In A Modest Proposal, she discusses a potential
>| short-term fix to the problem: a one-year, co-op,
>| certificate-granting program for women set up and sponsored by
>| Silicon Valley companies."
>| 
>| dgilik notes that his unscientific survey suggested that 93% of
>| Linux users are male.
> `----
> 
> http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/16/233204&from=rss

It's simple.  Women "ask for directions". Men don't.  The second type
teaches themselves.

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