Gender and careers

I was listening NPR this morning and the news was about To Get Women To Work In Computer Science, Schools Get Them To Class

I was driving my 3yo daughter to daycare and I immediately started thinking:

Are we aware of diversity challenges in the social work profession? Are we interested in discussing it? Do we want to get more “people” in human sciences – despite of their gender?

Why do we have gender-driven conversations?

Why do we discuss diversity in Computer Science and not in Sociology, for example?

If we focus to have equal opportunities in computer science for all genders, what else are we communicating?

What is the underline? What are the drivers, cause and consequence?

We need to ensure free access to computer science to whomever wants to pursue the profession.

AND, we need to ensure that all fields of knowledge/professions are equally important.

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