The women's web?
Teenage girls are, apparently, leading the way on the net.
February 21, 2008
By Chris Hickerson
According to the New York Times teenage girls are driving social networks. This fits nicely into my personal experiences, gleaned from interactions with a younger sister enslaved by MySpace and a girlfriend whose Facebook chats are of legendary size. What I don't know, is whether this trend represents a real shift in the gender make-up of the computer culture or whether it is just a fad that will blow over with Facebook and MySpace.
What do you all think? Are women invading the nerd professions to stay or can the die-hards just bunker down and weather the storm?
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Nerdversity, a definite pro. I'm all for shattering the microchip ceiling. More female coders would probably bring a whirlwind of ideas to the table and help sites cater to more than the typical young, money-making male audience.
But then again, who can trust what the NYT says? This could just be another one of McCain's affaire de coeurs..
That is all well and good, but would a female, having gone through the same education as a male, maintain a unique outlook on the work or would she become just another entrenched coder who happened to have a different set of genitalia.
I agree with the last statement. As a computer science major and avid programmer, I have several friends who are coders/geeks and who also happen to be female. What you bring to technology is as much about your personality as it is your gender. The fact that there are fewer women in the profession is just a holdover from previous generations.
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