{"id":2366,"date":"2016-12-15T16:04:01","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T23:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/162.243.68.163\/?p=2366"},"modified":"2016-12-15T16:08:51","modified_gmt":"2016-12-15T23:08:51","slug":"why-arent-there-more-women-programmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/?p=2366","title":{"rendered":"Why aren&#8217;t there more women programmers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wondering why it&#8217;s so difficult to convince more women to go into tech? Maybe you&#8217;re asking the wrong question.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an exercise. Think about what you did today. Imagine that you were solving a problem at work.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If it seemed like an intractable problem, and every time you thought you&#8217;d found the solution, it turned out that this approach was critically flawed and you had to backtrack&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>If half of the time you spent was wasted because of misleading or missing documentation&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>If you searched Google for answers and found others who had the same problem, and their question is more than 5 years old, and nobody has proposed a solution&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>And you were eventually able to find the source of the problem through a process of elimination that might as well just be called trial-and-error&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>And in the end the cause was something quite trivial, located in such a way as to maximize the amount of other code you have to rewrite to fix it&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If this sounds like your normal workday, you might be a programmer.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re asking the wrong question. The real question is<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Why are there so many men in tech?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wondering why it&#8217;s so difficult to convince more women to go into tech? Maybe you&#8217;re asking the wrong question. Here&#8217;s an exercise. Think about what you did today. Imagine that you were solving a problem at work. If it seemed like an intractable problem, and every time you thought you&#8217;d found the solution, it turned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2366"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2370,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2366\/revisions\/2370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}