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srgvd | 10 years ago

> Is teaching in this subject also (sic) "absolutely dominated by female"? I doubt it.

http://www.oecd.org/std/37964549.pdf

FEMALE DOMINATED OCCUPATIONS IN 20 OECD COUNTRIES, Women to Men Ratio

Pre-primary Education Teaching Associate Professionals 14.5:1

Primary Education Teaching Associate Professionals 6.2:1

Special Education Teaching Professionals 5.6:1

Primary and Pre-primary Education Teaching 5.3:1

> It's also an incredible amount of work to organize something like this.

I never said it was simple or unneeded.

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oalders|10 years ago

Sure, many types of teaching may be dominated by females, but is _teaching to code_ dominated by females?

srgvd|10 years ago

I am not aware of any statistics on this subject. How exactly this is related to my observation?

All engineers I know who worth their salt acquired their skills mostly through self-education and lot of practice, and the process was gender-independent. I don't think 'boys-are-not-allowed' classes will put any of the participants closer to professional careers in coding.