Monday, September 24, 2007

Pink and blue spreadsheets?

That's what my editor wanted to know when I told him where my story on gender and computer science was going.

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Great article -- very thought-provoking. It's easy to see how the reductionist thinking very common in the field of software engineering could lead to these designs ... and how the predominantly-male makeup of the discipline could lead to nobody noticing that a majority of users may be underserved by the results. I wonder if there are similar differences in how people use search?

jon

PS: is this the best link for the article? It's longer than the other version(s) I found ...

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