Are Women Too Dumb For Tech?

[Devil'sAdvocate]

For what it's worth, there are really only 2 types of "work" to begin with which people perform during any given "job" - rote work, which machines can easily emulate and requires no creative ability, and creative work.

Regardless of their fancy "titles" to make them more attractive to job prospectors and college admissions, such as "tech, science, business etc" - the majority of actual "work" required to meet the bare minimum requirements of job function (especially among lower-ranked employees) requires no actual 'intelligence' or creativity beyond repetition, or rote memorization.

Likewise, most of what is marketed as "job skills" are not really "skills" at are, and likewise require no level of "skill" beyond rote memorization - it's simply about learning company/industry jargon via rote repetition; memorizing terminology for a college exam (as opposed to the "skill" required to be a fighter pilot, or win a martial arts tournament) - requires no more "skill" than memorizing the alphabet, it just requires more and more hours of time invested, not more "skill" or intelligence.

(A person who completes a 4 year "computer science" degree may spend hours memorizing terminology, but they'd be no closer to founding a computer company than they were in high school, since they never actually learned the arts of creative thinking, strategy, problem solving, etc).

So the truth is that, if a woman (or man) is "smart enough" to pass a 1st grade exam, then they're "smart" enough for any entry level corporate job in "tech"

... since regardless of what fancy job title it has, if the actual physical "work" the person spend most of their time performing each day just involves mindless tasks such as filing papers, memorizing jargon, responding to emails, etc - then they're not actually using any "intelligence" - just spending more and more hours using the same "skills" they already learned in Kindergarden when they memorized their ABCs, or when they first learned how to ride a bike.

[rcfieldz]

So recently, I posted a topic (primarily) about the dwindling economic opportunities for women, both here in the United States and increasingly worldwide, and how this trend is being led by the technology sector. People (men) responded by contending that it's unnatural for women to want to work in technical fields like technology, science, math, and engineering. (Apparently, it has become more unnatural in the last 30 years.) So what do you think it is that keeps women from majoring in these fields today? Is it primarily our emotionally-driven brains or might it instead primarily be the way we are socialized?

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