The Secret History of Women in Coding
I'm pretty amazed with this article, it made me notice how women were like experts in those early days of computers, even though on pictures, films and recordings there was always that image of a group of women working on whatever computer they were working on I never really noticed or reacted to the fact that, indeed, most of the teams that really worked with this computers were made of girls, old and young, but to see a man doing this kind of stuff I can't recall to see one.
One of the things that has always been characteristic with men is the ego and superiority, and the damage from this way of thinking hasn't healed to this day even with all this movements and protests (which, from my point of view just get things worse). Even today, there are places were women are considered less capable than men on computing and programming and that's something that must change completely.
I sincerely don't like all the protests for women equality and all that things, not because I consider women lower than men but because I already consider them equal to me, sadly this image that a lot of people have of a wise programming man and not a woman, seems to be far from disappearing.
On my own school I've seen girls with better not only programming skills, but also logical, social and mathematical ones than other males. This girls have managed to overcome what the society expects from a programmer and from a female programmer as well, when I think about that they are only from one school and generation, it makes me smile that this is only one school and that around the world are even more with talented women, women which make the difference on this man-dominated industry, even though the progress seems slow and that even when I die there is not a completely equality or at least no underestimation, I feel glad to know that someday, there will be no more false expectations about women programmers.
I'm pretty amazed with this article, it made me notice how women were like experts in those early days of computers, even though on pictures, films and recordings there was always that image of a group of women working on whatever computer they were working on I never really noticed or reacted to the fact that, indeed, most of the teams that really worked with this computers were made of girls, old and young, but to see a man doing this kind of stuff I can't recall to see one.
One of the things that has always been characteristic with men is the ego and superiority, and the damage from this way of thinking hasn't healed to this day even with all this movements and protests (which, from my point of view just get things worse). Even today, there are places were women are considered less capable than men on computing and programming and that's something that must change completely.
I sincerely don't like all the protests for women equality and all that things, not because I consider women lower than men but because I already consider them equal to me, sadly this image that a lot of people have of a wise programming man and not a woman, seems to be far from disappearing.
On my own school I've seen girls with better not only programming skills, but also logical, social and mathematical ones than other males. This girls have managed to overcome what the society expects from a programmer and from a female programmer as well, when I think about that they are only from one school and generation, it makes me smile that this is only one school and that around the world are even more with talented women, women which make the difference on this man-dominated industry, even though the progress seems slow and that even when I die there is not a completely equality or at least no underestimation, I feel glad to know that someday, there will be no more false expectations about women programmers.
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