Women in technology. An unfair representation of success.

As you can tell from my previous entries, I really love when technology is approached from a social perspective. Not only these viewpoints expand our industry to solve wider problems, but also help us to see what's wrong and what has been wrong within the computer science field since its beginning. 

Thompson, C, from the New York Times Magazine, exposes how, as most things within our global culture, women influenced and perfected the development of technology. Although discrimination is globally perceived as a race or ethnic centered problem, gender biases in societies prove otherwise. Since the creation of modern communities, and that is, when humankind decided to scientifically approach metaphysical phenomenon in addition to organize civilizations around a patriarchal god figure, women have been misplaced as well as disrespected in any social factor. As it is mentioned in the article The Secret History of Women in Coding (2019). 1 , modern industries had and have had preferences towards men. Male contributors not only are culturally preferred for being those who create and improve rough and technical scientific advancements, but are the ones who receive the merit for creations their female counterpart do. 

What I found more interesting about the history of my study field, and continuing on the previous discussion,  is how elitism really shaped the progress of humanity. At one point of the article, it is explained how the Ivy League created the current technical interviews format -a format whose functionality relapses in an excuse to justify the hardcore programmer stereotype- and thus, stated the expected mindset and physical appearance acceptance throughout any kind of Silicon Valley around the world. To say the least, it is really discouraging, speaking as a Hispanic person, see how western culture forgets and obscures the effort of a human being only because it does not satisfies its ethnic agenda. 

Conclusively, we must not forget that our female partners are equally capable as us within this and any other profession. Female, Black and Hispanic people participation within culture is not part of a political agenda or intimidation propaganda against white male professionals, but instead,  is a symbol and clear representation of the hatred biases that have been present in the the technological industry since its conception. As I stated in my second entry, our differences are the principal factor for communities creation, but it is our similarities that help humankind to evolve and advance as a whole.    


Bibliography

1. Thompson, C. (2019). The Secret History of Women in Coding. The New york Magazine. pp.1-24

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