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Is electronics a man's hobby?
eti:
I see this question (and thread) as a rocking chair in its potential to waste energy whilst getting nowhere.
coppice:
--- Quote from: cdev on September 13, 2020, 09:43:25 pm ---Its an interesting historical fact that women used to do practically all the computer programming for the early NASA missions. Back then they were thought of as intrinsically better at it. This is historical fact and its easy to verify as many of these women are still remembered at NASA.
As workplaces go, there still are a lot of women scientists at NASA. And lots of them are doing things that push the state of the art, systems that demand a very high level of teamwork, knowledge and reliability. They have lots of female administrators too. And support staff. They have kickass female system administrators, who know unix inside and out.
They do things like that as well as men do. Thats what women are capable of in professional atmospheres where people have no time for bullshit.
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You have only talked about what women are capable of doing. What it more interesting is what they chose to do. I used to work in a large software house. It was split about 50:50 between the business software division and the technical software division. People were largely able to chose which division they were in. A little more than half the business division were women. I think there were 2 women in the technical division. Lots of the men wanted to get out of the business division, as they found the work dull and tedious. The women were eager to stay out of the technical division for similar stated reasons.
magic:
--- Quote from: cdev on September 13, 2020, 09:43:25 pm ---They do things like that as well as men do. Thats what women are capable of in professional atmospheres where people have no time for bullshit.
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NASA is a sad joke compared to what it used to be.
And I think we could use some sources for the "early missions" (which?) being "entirely" programed by women.
cdev:
https://www.history.com/news/human-computers-women-at-nasa
https://www.history.com/news/coding-used-to-be-a-womans-job-so-it-was-paid-less-and-undervalued?li_source=LI&li_medium=m2m-rcw-history
wraper:
--- Quote from: Wilksey on September 13, 2020, 06:00:59 pm ---However, if you go into an assembly house there are a ton of middle aged women cranking away on assembly / soldering, maybe it's just the designing they are not a fan of?! :-//
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That's just a shitty job where they were taught to do a single operation with little understanding of what they are actually doing.
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