Marissa Mayer in an interview on huffingtonpost Series WomenInTech explains her point of view on the issue of the integration of women to computing and in general in the geek world. Mayer is well known for her work at Google since graduating from Stanford, often being a public figure for the company. She is currently serving as Vice President of Localization and Local Services. In this interview, among other things, she talks about her concerns about the number of women working in the technological world.
Mayer argues that the problem of the low number of women programmers and women Internet entrepreneurs is a problem of how we view technology. Well, as we grow up, girls are offered a closed stereotype of what it means to be a geek (someone traditionally alone who spends hours typing in front of a screen). Attracting more women to technology would mean breaking this stereotype and showing girls that you don't have to like video games to be a geek girl. Mayer herself was a ballet dancer with a penchant for pastels and Oscar de la Renta's fashion.
The most important thing we can do to increase the number of women in technology is to show variety in role models. The rigid stereotype of what it is to be a programmer (computer scientist) really affects people's understanding and ability to identify with the role, we need people to be able to say “Yes this is something I want to be a part of".
Mayer is optimistic that Facebook, Twitter and Google sites, as well as next-generation phones will be catalysts in shifting the ratio in technical roles by clarifying the practical applications of computer science. Although women and men in the industry face similar challenges, the difference for some women is that it is important for them to understand how their careers will influence people's daily lives.
Women really want to see the application of what they do in people's lives. Many women do not see how programming (computer science) reaches people.
As we become more familiar with technology, women will be more drawn to computer science. One reason Mayer thinks this is that these years women are experimenting a lot with technology on a day-to-day basis. When you use those things on a daily basis, you become more curious to know how they were made.
So far Mayer's impressions.
It must be exciting to see a woman program 😀 at least I would love it 🙂
Mweh, it is when he knows what he is doing and says I have seen a couple and they become worse than a man in love with some language or technology.
Be careful, I have met two developers who have left me speechless, but the vast majority in my university (women) in the computer science career, in fact, they are not interested in the career ...
I remember that in a course I took once there were two girls who programmed very well, they made a website from scratch with html and javascript that was nice to see; they were also good at Java. However, I don't recall seeing them participate in tech discussions like we boys used to do during breaks.
In the computer engineering career I have also noticed some girls who are very intelligent and / or studious because they do very well in exams, but I do not perceive that they feel passion for technology, at least as I felt it, for example recently, while doing that a Debian 6.0 installation would work properly with two SATA disks in a hardware RAID1 configuration, additionally with LVM partitions.
Of course, this appreciation is subjective, since we cannot know what another person feels, but since women are usually communicative, one would expect them to also talk about technology if it really was of interest to them, and this rarely happens.
So far I have seen girls who enjoy web development, but this and being a lover of technology like any of us, is something quite different 🙁
Don't you have any geek friends ???
But what is this???
and the debianitas women where will they reside ????
KZKG ^ Gaara usually doesn't have friends last more than 2 months unfortunately ...
what does gaara do with women ???
Or k doesn't it ??? LOL!!!
LOL!!!! If you continue to be guided by any nonsense that the Courage says, I see you badly LOL !!!
do not be angry, we are joking XDDDD
For rarities there is already the anime !!!
Nah if I don't get mad about things like that hahahaha 😀
That a relationship of mine has lasted 2 months (and only 1) does not mean anything ... uff .. how bad it is to have nothing more to criticize, right? you always insist on the same theme and you don't refresh LOL !!!
Of course I can't say anything about myself since, as everyone knows, I have not had relationships nor do I plan to have them, lest I throw something at my girlfriend's head and leave her half silly.
Apart from being a programmer, she owns part of the shares of a well-known sausage brand, she is making gold.
As for the rest, I am going to abstain lest someone come who I know to call myself macho and misogynist.
XD
Traditionally, technology is closely associated with men (our species likes stereotypes and delights in them), but they are social conventions that time will change -or so I hope-. I have friends who are as playful or computer fond as I am; the times change.
Well, I have a friend who studied computer science because in her city it was the only thing that could be studied at the university.
And let's go, he took the race with a note that more than one would like.
In the end he has never exercised is more, he does not like anything that goes hand in hand with linux because in the race he had to fight with slackware and company and he did not like to go typing to activate an external hard disk and blah blah blah.
The issue that you have to do what motivates you, now the only thing you do is program with sap in windows.
And that's when he has free time, but we know that work does not motivate him to work as a computer.
Sad but real
Studying what you don't like is the worst thing a person can do.
I say this from experience, that I study a medium degree that I hate with all my soul.
Too bad your acquaintance had the bad luck that she could only study computer science.
If she wanted to study architecture but look at her parents they would not let her emancipate herself, total for 150 kilometers there are….
Now she lives in that city and she doesn't want to study anymore, she has a bitter memory of her studies (poor woman was traumatized),
In addition to not keeping a good memory of the parents
What is emancipation?
When you are a minor, your parents or your legal guardian make the most important decisions regarding your life. When you turn 16, I think I remember, you can emancipate yourself, which means taking the legal reins of your existence and being able to live on your own without depending on the will of a legal guardian. Of course, this also carries risks, you have to show that you are financially self-sufficient and stuff.
But in this context, I suppose she is simply referring to her parents not letting her live alone in another city.
Here from 16 you are free to study or not, but nothing else.
Freeing oneself from parents… leaving the house, being independent 🙂…. come on, what you need LOL !!
the one I have liao….
Damn you haven't messed anything up, you're talking normal, like people, not like animals.
If it's any consolation, courage
I studied a medium degree that I liked, and more is half obsessed with the subjects and everything, so I remembered what the professors gave later (even now !!!), but they never let me work more than 6 months in a row ...
But there I do not see that the fault lies with the module itself, but with the companies or the contract.
I don't even know what I need anymore because it's always going to be just as shitty.
Courage you study rascal
Medium Degree Nursing Auxiliary Care, one of the most shitty you can find in Medium Degree FP together with Socio-health Care, which is even worse.
Courage majete ... are you going to be a nurse or a doctor? ... I can imagine you when a sick patient comes, you saying: «patient, better not recover because this world is not worth it ... the world is shit, die and save yourself the disgust ..." … LOL!!
I don't like anything that is related to health. So I will never work from that. I wanted to stop studying that but thanks to you know who and another person did not let it.
And it's already too funny with phrases like: better not recover that this world is not worth it ... the world is shit, die and save yourself the disgust.
These kinds of thoughts, if they have a real cause, do not seem like something to laugh at, not when they do it to attract attention.
What I have thought is that if I don't like a patient, I will do everything wrong to hurt him, screw him, I'm only interested in pasta, the patient peels it off me.
Remind me never to let you attend me 😀
I have not said that I like you, besides the health of Cuba is better than ours
I will not talk about it here 😉… if you want to know something, you know how to contact me and I will clarify some doubts 🙂
How cool is it to bite or cry when you say that something in Cuba is better huh?
Well, they have told me that education in Argentina and Mexico is the best in South America, in Central America there, I don't know anymore ……….
This is NOT a blog / policy site 😉
Health and Politics is not the same.
Also I have not said it to get into a topic or anything.
But come on, if you want me not to purge your serum system, I don't purge it and you die from a stroke.
it's worse that ambulance driver.
I also did a health one !!!
The one that you do not crazy would have done it !!!
You are all brave !!!
Well, there is nothing to fear in this degree, because with nursing it has little or nothing to do, rather it is doing the dirty work.
Probes and punctures are done by a nurse, never an assistant.
ianpock's HAHA nah you haven't done anything… don't think so, we alone are enough to put it together big LOL !!!
I feel that Courage still studying ESO right? (that's what it's called isn't it?)
I left ESO 2 years ago, I didn't even finish it.
Study FP Medium Grade, FP1 for the old
Studying what you don't want also happened to me, and that's how it goes. Parents sometimes screw up your life in a bad way ...
In my case it has been by myself, which is worse.
But what parents do not have to do is go where they are not called, I think they want us to study and then support them, otherwise I do not find logic.
Worse is working on what you don't like and it is done, without trauma or po …… as
I know a little about that
It is not worse, there is money involved, when you study not.
And also when it comes to work, you have gone through the study phase and if you choose well, you don't have to work on something you don't like.
how good things look from the outside ...
Money is the most important thing in life.
Courage where are you from ????
Well, the wolf friend is right sometimes you have to work on what you do not want, and more in times of crisis. If not tell me, or you are exploited or beggar yourself !!
I from Spain.
But here you are welcome, here they give work to all the prawns, to the normal people who give us. As we ordered 3 and the prawns 2 ...
Courage do not freak out that I am also from Spain, it is difficult to find gigs if but one found ...
Well, every week they call me to work and I can't because I already cover 40 hours a week ...
Man is also like everything, a matter of luck, but some of us have an unlucky rate of 200%.
I still have to study higher degree, because the university seems to me that I am going to leave it for the young nerds.
Well tell me where I'm going, palla head
I say the same as keopety, by which region do these offers fall? LOL. I guess if you have experience, it is always easier to find a job. I am thinking of going to England or Tibet, I have not decided yet.
I do not want to do off-topic with the pages or anything but I know a temporary job that is going very well, as I said how difficult it is to work in a company even for 2 hours. Once they know you, you have an open field!
I am from the region of Catalonia and I can help you in Barcelona but I already said they would not be good jobs but what it would be if you are lucky is safe money.
At least that's why there are many who don't even pay you (luckily it never happened to me)
If you want for data and all that, pass the mail.
If you agree with that, I can take care of passing you the email addresses
For my no problem, if I can help someone and it is in my hands, why not do it ??????
If keopety agrees, I will give you the address of each one and to be able to speak more comfortably.
I do not see anything wrong with the geek or geek stereotype, in fact it is there where I have found the healthiest and kindest people, much more than * normal * people (normality is just something that follows the norm, it does not mean that be it good or bad).
O_O ... damn, piece of truth what you said ... perfect it was!
Keopety, if you are from Spain, I can help you
what an average grade, courage !!!!
Putting it to two years has been the worst!
Mine is still one, that's why FOL and RET do not validate me for other middle grades ¬¬
If I'm from Spain, what kind of job is it?
The way they validate here is a disaster, for me fol and rat or ret are a single subject only that game
Have you seen a more advanced roll ????
Courage of assistant of infermeria …… ..
I am a pharmacy technician (middle and higher grade) lol
And silly subjects that you forget.
In Ret many things are by logic, although I who was studying administration is possible that for that reason the subject does not cost me.
But Fol? What a pestiño of subject, laws, types of contract and payroll, when there are computer programs that fill out your payroll. And the laws with downloading them from the internet is enough.
Of those that I give, only TB, Hygiene, TOE and Psychology are really worth, because Documentation almost that we are giving more office automation than anything else, there is a lot of carcamal that does not even know how to save a Word text.
KzKg ^ Gaara (wasn't there a more complicated nick ????)
It is the best that I saw, although I could not choose it because with the English classes impossible!
Normally a weekend gig if there is!
I worked for the movistar for a while and the only thing I had to do was tell the group to be expected ... xDDDDDDDDD
I went to the bar to have coffee and they counted me as hours of work 🙂
XDDDD!!!
What a Christmas I did not charge much but what I enjoyed 🙂
HAHA yes there were, mine is not so complex hahaha.
Uff… let's see… I know English, I know computer science, network administration, wes site development… mmm… I kind of want those jobs that you mention LOL !!
what LOL!!!
Besides, you use arch (by the way in Barcelona I don't know almost anyone who uses it).
Of debianitas if they go down the street with the shirt
keopety jobs are diverse.
If you know about computers and smartphones, you can see something related to computing with 40 hours with a 6-month to one-year contract
Charging more than a thousand bucks !!!
That is 30% for me !!! 🙂
With that money even I would like to go there HAHAHAHA
To Montera street, if I know you ...
DesdeLinux now it is also an employing agency LOL!!!! HA HA HA!!! 😀 😀 😀
Well, it wouldn't hurt, because my jobs are going to be very bad with the fights I'm going to have with the bosses.
here the manager work is me !!!
When I say computer knowledge, I mean you know something about cpu and hardware. And some soft but come on if you have installed arch, throw in front that this world belongs to the people with more face than back
LOL !!!
I still know about hardware ... I'll put together a PC that is loose in pieces without missing a moment 😀
The other day you said you were afraid to open your laptop.
And you could make a guide on how to assemble computers.
I don't like to open my laptop, because if for X or Y reason I do something wrong ... I screw it up, I run out of any, and there I do become emo 🙁
I did not understand the guide ...
Photo tutorial on how to mount a CPU
For that, I would need a computer to disassemble it and do the tutorial, and at home I only have one and it is my old man's ... I can't even joke about taking it apart LOL !!
Gaara build me a computer with 16 cores and each one of 1tera and send it to me, I'll send you the money !!!! :)
Ok I'll do it ... as soon as 1TB speed CPUs exist LOL !!!
Well, give me a Cuban beer !!!
The beers are accompanied by a good brunette or mulatto ... so if you want the beer, you will have to sacrifice and take the companion ... LOL !!!
You will see that now comes the Courage to fight hahahaha
Well, if it comes in the mulatto + beer pack, I'm not going to say no, although my comment didn't come out ... LOL
Yes, it's very good, but I don't have a computer science degree, or anything like that
Go on !!!… it seems that nobody dares to say that the interests of men and women are not the same.
Nature, very wisely, has made us different and although some may try to confuse us, it will continue to be so.
There are female soldiers, but killing seems to remain a man's thing. And technology, too.
It is not my personal experience, I study in an engineering school (chemistry, nothing to do with programming) and the careers that have more women are industrial chemistry and systems engineering (I think it is the same as computer science or at least similar). Where if there are no women at all they are in electronic and mechanical ing, there are complete salons without any girl.
Me in my homeland, near SLP, MX.
I have also noticed that lack of passion of women when I was in the computer science career, although it must be said that in the technical aspect they painted my face. Nobody beat them in exams.
Perhaps in the practical aspect it is where it fails them, but I know cases in which with a lot of work that was overcome.
I study systems engineering at my university and in all my career I have barely had 2 colleagues, which reflects the low number of women who study computers, since out of every 30 men in my career there are only 2 or 3 women.
In the computer science career in my semester we are only 2 women, and guess who knows more, both hehe, so do not generalize and I consider myself a geek, my mother is upset because I prefer the latest technology than clothes or shoes ..
Well, 1 HURRA for you and your friend, I wish there were more like you in the world ... without a doubt it would be a better place 😀
Welcome to the blog, a pleasure to have you here.
Greetings.
nitana
Yes, surely there is, if not, who will mount? Debian women?
It would be nice to see informatics, programming ^ - ^
I am studying, and I plan to be a programmer. Greetings, good post 🙂