I'm encouraged by all the female devs I see here!

a positive discriminating comment written by a male in a field a bit dominated by males, can be interpreted at many points in a multidimensional sociological graph... i'm getting lost in sexist political correctness calculations, help me out here.

I just think it's awesome to see. women are so incredibly talented, it's nice to have so many here on devrant contributing. our community and the larger cs community is better for having them.

I'd like to echo what @Cruiser said. 👍🏻

*waits for pun* ;)

There are talented people from all walks of life, all are equal in my eyes.

It's great there are more female developers but don't feel like treating them as gods is a positive move.

Being accepting of everyone wanting to make it into your industry and allowing them to integrate into the collective not into special groups is all we should ever be.

No, they ROCK

@nblackburn I don't think anyone is treating female devs like gods. The industry as a whole is just realizing that they've been heavily discouraging women from being a part or pushing them to content/management roles instead of tech roles.

Personally, I would've been involved with programming a decade ago. I was toying with HTML and basic inline css while majoring in math, but I got enough assumptions that I wouldn't be able to handle "real" programming code that I eventually believed it and swapped to sociology. Now that I'm learning it in earnest, I'm picking it up more quickly than those detractors years ago, and I absolutely love writing code.

Part of why it's nice to see people of different backgrounds take part is that if you haven't experienced something, it's hard to see it happening to someone else. We're equal, but our experiences aren't.

@otherconsolelog I am sorry to hear that, i have always welcomed anyone to the industry regardless.

I think the important thing to remember is that you should never listen to people telling you can't do something. I have had that my entire life but now i am doing pretty well for myself in a industry i love.

I do however speak from experience with my previous point as have noticed women are either attacked or overly protected but rarely have i seen accepted.

@nblackburn Thanks, and I'm sorry to hear that you've been doubted so much.

Thankfully I'm old enough now to realize that your advice is very true, and I absolutely agree that overprotecting comes from the same patronizing place as the "Women aren't as good at __" arguments and "Math is hard" Barbies.