It’s Not Gender Warfare… It’s Math.

annaholmes:

(A shorter version of this piece appears in today’s Washington Post. Photo of Google executive and engineer Marissa Mayer via. Headline via.)

Let’s say I was designing a new piece of software to make my life as a writer a little easier. First, I’d program it count how many characters I’d typed out and in what amount of time, in order to document my productivity on any given day. Then I’d ask it to compare words, phrases, sentences and entire paragraphs from one draft to the next, in order to calculate how much of what I’d written had changed…or stayed the same.

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Blum says that, in the 1990s, thanks to a program in which AP computer science teachers attended summer programs that discussed issues of gender representation, Carnegie Mellon saw a huge jump in the number of women applying to the university’s computer science department. “Working with the teachers was very critical,” she says. “They were the influencers.” That program, like many others with similar objectives, was later defunded.

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