Comments on: Do women code with a heart? http://techstatusquo.com/do-women-code-with-a-heart/ Tomorrow's ideas today. Mon, 06 Sep 2010 09:15:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Mike http://techstatusquo.com/do-women-code-with-a-heart/#comment-44 Mike Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:51:13 +0000 http://techstatusquo.com/?p=34#comment-44 Well, has Emma McGrattan come across women who do things the 'manly' way? As science has it that most women who perform well in men's work or fields have to some extend male traits (a sizeable amount of male hormones) but women are naturally better communicators than men so the same is evident in programming/coding. Let her not make this another debate on gender superiority. http://memoments.blogspot.com/ http://youtechno.blogspot.com/ http://niche-audience.blogspot.com/ Well, has Emma McGrattan come across women who do things the ‘manly’ way? As science has it that most women who perform well in men’s work or fields have to some extend male traits (a sizeable amount of male hormones) but women are naturally better communicators than men so the same is evident in programming/coding.

Let her not make this another debate on gender superiority.

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]]> By: Jessieroo http://techstatusquo.com/do-women-code-with-a-heart/#comment-43 Jessieroo Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:36:23 +0000 http://techstatusquo.com/?p=34#comment-43 Leaving aside gender-biased reasons for being nurturing or not, perhaps Ms. McGrattan has a point: on some subconscious level (probably as the result of socialization, but perhaps not) women approach code-writing differently than men. Would this surprise you? People tend to approach given problems in different mindsets depending on their training (education and socialization included), I find this logical. Does this mean that codes written by females are less cryptic? It may appear that way, but this could be the result of taking a different approach and not necessarily the result of some unsaid desire to be cooperative. Leaving aside gender-biased reasons for being nurturing or not, perhaps Ms. McGrattan has a point: on some subconscious level (probably as the result of socialization, but perhaps not) women approach code-writing differently than men. Would this surprise you? People tend to approach given problems in different mindsets depending on their training (education and socialization included), I find this logical. Does this mean that codes written by females are less cryptic? It may appear that way, but this could be the result of taking a different approach and not necessarily the result of some unsaid desire to be cooperative.

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