Lets hear it for the girls!

[mudskipper]

You used that joke at the time, got a similar reaction that time too

3rd time lucky?

[SueEllen]

3rd time lucky?

I feel your pain

I was annoyed at the first football match I had to queue in the ladies even though the queue was 2 people - me and one other adult lady. I've never had to queue at an IT conference.

[original PM]

I reckon linda lovelace did more for the feminist movement

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[NickFitz]

Nice to see a thread about a study showing that women's contributions to programming projects are rejected if it's known they are women get derailed by some troll arguing that women don't deserve to be taken seriously as programmers

And I don't know anything about this supposed ranting at Yahoo! management by somebody who, AFAIK, has absolutely nothing to do with the study; but having worked at Yahoo! I can assert with confidence that the higher levels of management there deserve it

[darmstadt]

Many years ago, women played a very vital role in computing, for example my mother was a programmer on LEO along with quite a few others, and then there were these: Big computers, big hair: the women of Bell Labs in the 1960s – in pictures | Technology | The Guardian

The last project I did, the majority of systems programmers were women, including the management on that side. Interestingly enough, the techies doing the more menial work were men...

[mudskipper]

Many years ago, women played a very vital role in computing, for example my mother was a programmer on LEO along with quite a few others, and then there were these: Big computers, big hair: the women of Bell Labs in the 1960s – in pictures | Technology | The Guardian

The last project I did, the majority of systems programmers were women, including the management on that side. Interestingly enough, the techies doing the more menial work were men...

Someone posted this before - might have been you.

In the 60s computer programming was considered ‘women’s work’ – Us Vs Th3m

[vetran]

You used that joke at the time, got a similar reaction that time too

you mean we shouldn't take the Piss out of her?

[NigelJK]

COBOL invented by (mainly) a woman

COBOL was designed in 1959, by CODASYL and was partly based on previous programming language design work by Grace Hopper, commonly referred to as "the (grand)mother of COBOL"

True genius does not have a sex. Average programmers need not apply.

I have seen far more bad code from males, but then again I've only ever had 2 females on any of my teams, and their code was on a par with their male colleges. I think the OP was pointing at the statistical 'significance' of the result being in question, not the analysis (I've not read it because when it comes to bad use of statistics there seems to be no limits, sex or otherwise and far outstrips any notion of fairness or equality in it's bad effects).

[BrilloPad]

When I started coding in banks, some veterans told me how they initially were placed in with the typists as both used a keyboard.

They were subjected to merciless taunting from the "ladies". Sexism was rife.

[Troll]

COBOL was designed in 1959, by CODASYL and was partly based on previous programming language design work by Grace Hopper, commonly referred to as "the (grand)mother of COBOL"

D'ya know before I googled Grace I had a mental picture of someone with horn rimmed glasses, thick tights and sensible shoes