Wednesday, November 5, 2014
Effects of alienation of women from computer science
I think there is great harm with the idea in our society that computers are a man's stomping grounds. For the point of my argument, it doesn't matter why women feel alienated from computer science, it just matters that they do. A computer is a tool, and tools should not be gender-specific. Take a hammer, for example. If a society were to think that only one gender could use a hammer and think down on the other gender using it, it is then stunting the building and creative capabilities that could come from the minds of half of it's population. It is the same with computers. By continuing to allow our culture to alienate women from computers and technology, we are cutting off the bright minds of the women in our society from using computers to create, build, enlighten, expand, and otherwise make our world a better place. Why on earth would we want to do that? What can we do to unalienate women from computers in a way that they will respond positively to?
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Dang it Joseph, this is the most enlightened post I've read on this subject for this class. You hit nail right on the head. I think this is a hard problem to fix though. Te best approach is to ave women who understand women play a larger role in building tools for women. But that answer is cyclic because it requires women to be in STEM in the first place. Keep fighting the good fight.
ReplyDeleteI love the angle at which you wrote this, but I don't really see how society is alienating women from Computer Science. I think we're "solving" the problem by encouraging women to pursue STEM related careers, but I really think we need to start trying to treat everyone the same. And I think our crop of students doing exactly that. Good job, everyone :)
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