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I wonder if teachers in Japan really discourage girls from learning about computer science and other things like that.

If so, that is crazy. I think there should be an issue with that. I guess it will be interesting to imagine Japan as a women-oriented society.

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prestigious|4 years ago

I think women in general are less interested in tech. Actually the most oppressive cultures have highest number of women in tech

perl4ever|4 years ago

> the most oppressive cultures have highest number of women in tech

Like the US in the 1950s.

It's not a matter of interest, it's that it has actually been the case that women are locked out of many high paying prestigious jobs, and software is/was the best available, where it isn't so prestigious.

There was a time when women simply could not get an engineering degree. And so, someone might study math, and end up as a programmer whose job title was "engineering assistant" to a male engineer.