women in software
Jan. 21st, 2019 09:26 amUsually people are worried about girls not choosing the programmer's profession and doing other things instead.
Okay, this is weird, yes.
Okay, this is weird, yes.
But where are the middle-aged female programmers? This looks totally strange to me. They would not be afraid to be intimidated by young assholes (they usually don't care), they would have knowledge and experience. Where are they?
A disclaimer. Back in the USSR, my team mostly consisted of female programmers over 30 (and 40); and I pretty much know their advantages. Reliable readable software, not prototypes that young male hackers tend to slap together (prototypes are okay, if we know they are prototypes, not production-level software).
So, what happened?