There are not enough girl programmers.
We keep running around blaming programmers for this ("hostile work environment!") when maybe we should also blame... girls.
Female peer pressure is one reason girls don't go into coding. Programming (and math and hard sciences) are not valued in the female community. Women who want to be accepted by other women aren't going to choose a field most women don't understand.
This idea applies to other underrepresented minorities too.
Creating a female-friendly work environment is necessary but not sufficient to getting more women into the programming workplace. We also need to work on the larger environment among females.
"Geek" has long since moved from insult to tribal identifier. Can we achieve the same critical mass of female geeks?
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