I’m not much on speculating about social problems, but if I were forced into diagnostic mode about the lack of self-taught female software engineers, I’d probably put the following rationales at the top of my list (in no particular order):
* Almost all of the male engineers I know report childhood experience “playing” with computers.
(Editor’s note: This essay comes in two parts. Here is the first part.)
Anyone who has met John Doerr knows that he is genuinely passionate about encouraging the participation of women in the venture-creation system: as VCs, as entrepreneurs, and especially as engineers. He was the first person I ever heard clearly articulate something that [...]
(Editor’s note: Joyce Park is founder and chief technology officer of Renkoo, an event Web site we will be hearing more about later at VentureBeat. Joyce has written a piece below about female leaders in Silicon Valley and wonders whether female power at Google may be a sign of change — or not)
Rolling up to [...]
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