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The Secret History of Women in Coding

Programming existed more that it could be ever imaged, that historical procedure, the combination of metal such as hardware and digits such as software, merged into one environment, at first that segmentation between hardware and software was notorious, by women being more likely to be programmers than men, but now a days this premise changes almost completely. There is often that question that pops out, why the differentiation, speaking of the treatment women had to endure through the whole human existence. The article titled The Secret History of Women in Coding mentions that out, there still exists sexism and discrimination, in this case in the environment of computer science. It had been very difficult to acknowledge the brilliant female minds that made extraordinary creations and gave birth to a whole new world of possibilities. Programming is label free, “the computer doesn’t even care if the programmer is female or black...” what ever race or ideology the programmer has. As a person, as a professional or a coder, it is our responsibility to acknowledge our surroundings and encourage to let other human beings to be comfort in our environment. There are some actions or gestures that are impregnated in our culture, in our daily lives, so that we don’t even analyze the context, some of those actions or gestures may be actions of micromachism, which exists because these actions could pass unnoticed. Therefor is our responsibility to know this actions and prevent them from happening in our context, for that will be the key factor for our daily interaction between each other.

Not only in computer science, it should be in all areas, that women and men could work together, in an atmosphere where respect exists.

Uncertainly exists on our comprehension of ourselves and our environment, how we accomplish to interact between ourselves, and why exist that definition and differentiation of every observable entity.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/13/magazine/women-coding-computer-programming.html

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