Quote Originally Posted by Dan Druff View Post
sonatine, do you really believe that, as a whole, women aren't less suited/attracted to coding itself?

I don't know how you can say that.

While there are obviously outliers, most women -- even very smart ones -- just do not have an interest in that sort of field, and it doesn't typically come from a place of fear of acceptance.

Perhaps some would-be female coders are pushed away from pursuing that line of work by ignorant parents or others who state things like, "That's not a job for a girl", but there's such an astoundingly high male-to-female ratio in coding that it's got to be much more than that.

Also this should also apply to other non-physical, traditionally male career choices, but it doesn't. All of these careers (think medicine, law, science) have been heavily penetrated by women over the past 60 or so years, despite the same initially unwelcoming environments that tech is accused of having.

Why is it so difficult to believe that there are some innate differences in the male and female brain, and some of those differences steer each gender toward certain interests?

Poker is another one, btw.

Let's say we remove from poker all of the hostility and degrading behavior toward women, and we magically scrub it from everyone's memory. Do you think the game eventually goes to 50-50 male and female? There's no chance.
A relative of mine works in real estate development, and has worked in or with title insurance companies for over a decade. We recently discussed how the overwhelming majority of title examiners in those companies are women. Being a title insurance examiner requires an incredible attention to detail. Being a good coder requires attention to detail, but the field is dominated by males. So, if Druff is correct, what's is likely to be the difference between those types of jobs that would result in such polar opposite gender populations