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		Duff on July 26, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What happened to all the female developers? So women somehow magically ship from the factory with a natural instinct to avoid IT jobs? In my city, they gave a civil service exam for a garbage collector -- 2,000 people took the test.

stcredzero on July 26, 2011 [–]

So women somehow magically ship from the factory with a natural instinct to avoid IT jobs?

The fact that a large number of the original "computers" were actually women would seem to indicate not.

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