Monday, November 18, 2013
Women and Computers
I am an undergraduate in the BYU Computer Science program and there are two or three girls in any high level cs course (junior or senior). There has been no outward discrimination. Everybody is different and has their own interests. Universities shouldn't worry about getting woman into a certain program, even if the numbers are low, they should brainstorm ways of getting more people into their program. Whether they be men or women it should not matter. Each person is different and has a different view to bring to the table.
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Excellent. Focusing on recruiting one group is discriminating against all the other groups that you aren't focusing on. So focus on people and not labels.
ReplyDeleteMaybe down the road it'll be discrimination, but right now we've designed the whole field to appeal to men. We need to recruit one group mostly to refocus and make sure that we are in fact focusing on all types of people in balance.
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