Computer flake : pluck down those science - fiction post horse ! Get rid of those Tron lightcycle toy ! Your science - fiction bric - a - brac is scare women away from IT , says a new survey .
concord to The Register :
[ University of Washington researcher Sapna ] Cheryan and her colleagues arranged multiple experiments and survey among hundreds of non - computing - subjects educatee at Washington uni . questionnaire were filled in in different elbow room – one previously prepared with a science fable poster , game outfit and Coke cans ; one rather with “ nature ” and “ nontextual matter ” paries graphics , books and burnt umber cupful . This microscope stage dressing was ostensibly not part of the tests , but nonetheless it had a brawny effect on conclusion by the dame take aim part .
Specifically , women satiate in questionnaires in the stereotypically geeky room were importantly less potential to express interest in computing machine - science refer studies or careers . having see both environs , and then hypothetically offer a chance to work in an all female team in either kind of elbow room , they still went for the non - geeky atmos .
Cheryan goes on to say that we want to attract more the great unwashed to computer science , and the presence of Chewbacca action figures frighten off both men and women from the discipline .
What the article does n’t mention until towards the conclusion , though , is that the people admit part in this subject were n’t computer - skill student — they were studying other subjects . ( Do you really need to attract English John Roy Major to computer science ? ) tot up to that the loads of preconception that seem to have been jam into this study ( like the idea that liking science fabrication is “ masculine ” and science - fiction toy are automatically a boys - only matter ) that it ’s hard to take it in earnest .
It sucks , though , that fellowship are receiving these kinds of message , like the idea that women only want to front at range of nature . ( Maybe a nice falls , or a kitten with a sign of the zodiac saying “ HANG IN THERE BABY ” ? ) It just seems intrinsically lightheaded — women who are concerned in computing machine science will be , ipso facto , geeks , and that entail they ’ll be interested in geeky stuff . So allow ’s not step on it to pluck down the gargantuan automaton wall art just yet .
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