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		hueving on Nov 13, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Places Where Women and Girls Can Learn to Code Ugh, it's stuff like this that perpetuates the idea that men and women have different abilities to learn coding.

Cuuugi on Nov 13, 2014 | [–]

It's more like a women's only gym. It's to avoid guys (who have a hard enough time meeting girls).

frtab on Nov 13, 2014 | [–]

It puts many people off to discover they're the only one of their gender in the room. That creates a self-reinforcing problem.

Projects like those linked above help break that circle.

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