[TriLUG] The biggest deterrent for women in tech

[bak]

On May 1, 2013, at 5:38 PM, Danielle <Danielle at whitrel.com> wrote:

> On 2013-05-01 15:42, Linda Gardea wrote:
>> Interesting read on toys & gender from ny times editorial.  Seems that
>> gender typing serves capitalism quite well.
>> 
>> http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/23/opinion/sunday/gender-based-toy-marketing-returns.html
> 
> I particularly like this quote, "That’s ridiculous, of course: it’s impossible to neatly disentangle the biological from the social, given that children are born into a culture laden with gender messages."
> 
> This is a point I find to be often missed or, at least, misunderstood, in these conversations - it begins early and is heavily comprised by issues that are easily dismissed as minor but which are as single flakes of snow in an avalanche.

I found Fine's _Delusions of Gender_ and Jordan-Young's _Brain Storm_ to be very effective at getting to the root of the neuroscience behind "men and women have different brains". Fascinating reads.

There isn't much, if any, evidence to support strong claims made by folks talking about "traditionally this way" and "naturally different".

--bak