Quote: (01-23-2014 06:05 AM)2Wycked Wrote:
Early feminist texts obsess over boys and girls being socialized differently. The young girl feminist looks over to the boy playing with trains and guns and silently fumes that she could do all that to, if only she was told to. If only women were told to be engineers, shave their heads and eat out other women then true liberation could be found.
This is a popular topic in computer science today. Every week there's another article about why there aren't more women in computers. These articles, when they're written by women, are invariably written either by a professional journalist, a professional feminist, or someone who's marginally involved in computers; for example someone who's a designer, which is much more about art and psychology than the insane amount of detail involved in getting a computer to execute that design as a set of instructions. The motivation is always "I didn't choose this career path, but more women should". Always trying to inspire with words, not actions.
I have a good friend whose wife was brought up Catholic, though he & his wife are Baptist. His wife's family is quite conservative. They're out there, even in the US, but because of the structure of the Church, it's hard to fight the tide.