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   Karen Sandler (karen@floss.social)'s status on Saturday, 21-Dec-2024 05:09:34 JST Karen Sandler

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   @vmbrasseur in addition to the literature, anecdotally AFAICT things are just as bad or even worse now than when I was a kid, and I was overtly told in high school by the calculus teacher that girls aren't good at math. I'm proud at how we hear that @outreachy gives people opportunities to try their hand at technical work that they were discouraged from doing when they were younger, but the number of people that are lost, who will never pursue technical material as an adult is astounding.

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     VM (Vicky) Brasseur (vmbrasseur@social.vmbrasseur.com)'s status on Saturday, 21-Dec-2024 05:09:35 JST VM (Vicky) Brasseur

     “My latest research as a psychologist and educational researcher unveils a major roadblock to achieving a more representative workforce, however: tech stereotypes that emerge remarkably early in children’s development. In research published this month, my colleagues and I found that by age six, kids already see girls as worse than boys at computer science and engineering.”

     https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/tech-stereotypes-discourage-girls-from-computing-and-engineering-as-early-as/