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good women developers…rare because women can’t be specialists?

Friday, June 20th, 2008

Recently I received an article from the wall street journal entitled, “Men write code from mars, women write more helpful code from venus“, and as girl surrounded by quite a few male developers, I forwarded it to the dev team with some random comment about “Girls are great developers” and that they better be ready for it, because I had already commented the entire code base out with kisses.  Meg, our other girl developer, said, “Girls are just better in general!” and we were all laughing, when Rob, another developer piped in, “Boys are better in specific!”  to further laughs.

But he continued, “Girls aren’t good at specializing.  Genetically that’s just the way it is.  Scientific studies have proven it.”
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