Until Systers came into existence, the notion of a global 'community of women in computer science' did not exist.
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But one did not do feminist theory, as such, in those days, not only because male academic discourse did not recognize such a term, but especially because the women's movement did not either.
My hope is that in the future, women stop referring to themselves as 'the only woman' in their physics lab or 'only one of two' in their computer science jobs.
You can see the absence of women in governing bodies from Congress to state legislators, on corporate boards, in tenured positions in academia, and as forepeople in factories.
The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women's fashion.
If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
There are 2 to 3 million women programmers in the world. We need to see them more.
Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
Starting early and getting girls on computers, tinkering and playing with technology, games and new tools, is extremely important for bridging the gender divide that exists now in computer science and in technology.
If more women want to be a part of the computer industry today, they have to do more to put themselves there. Nobody is keeping them out.
This world crisis came about without women having anything to do with it. If the women of the world had not been excluded from world affairs, things today might have been different.