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Girl Develop It is a national non-profit that provides technical education for women—and Sarah Kahn is a co-leader of Raleigh’s local chapter. In this video, she responds to a question she receives quite often: Why don’t more women attend technical conferences and other events? "If you want more women to come to your event, make it friendly," Kahn tells her audience, just before offering fives ways to do so: make the event accessible, post (and enforce) a code of conduct, publicize via non-traditional communication platforms, build networks, and extend personal invitations.

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nmset ·
> a national non-profit that provides technical education for women

My immediate understanding is : a male knocks at the door of this organization for technical education and is told : 'You're not a female, our tech education is not for you. '.

If, and only if I'm wrong, how would it be welcome the other way round : a female knocks at the door of a tech education organization and is told : 'You're not a male, our tech education is not for you' !

I definitely want to have missed something in this post !
caitlynm ·
Males are not systematically excluded from tech education. Women are.
dotmatrix ·
>Males are not systematically excluded from tech education. Women are.

I refute this statement.

There are thousands of programs out there for college and high school women and girls to participate in advanced engineering and mathematics programs.

Here's a small sampling:

MIT.

http://wtp.mit.edu/

Caltech.

http://diversitycenter.caltech.edu/women/caltech

U of Texas.

http://www.utexas.edu/community-engagement/youth-outreach-education

In fact, practically everywhere you look there are giant signs pasted all over every educational institution for women to be exclusively included in tech education. Having said that, I see no problem with any program that seeks to further the education of any person. I simply refute the meme that women are currently being systematically excluded from becoming educated in any particular area.

Did I mention that I have a high school age son? And that he's enrolled in technology specialized high school? And that his engineering centered school is greater than 50% female?

If there was a prior problem of systematic exclusion of women in tech education, that problem has been solved. You could argue a particular case or a particular situation of excluding women, but systematic exclusion? No. That statement seems to be unsupported by the current educational reality.
seatex ·
> Males are not systematically excluded from tech education. Women are.

Seriously? You actually think they are being excluded?

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