[Edu-sig] re: Girls, women and Programming (- and Python)

[Arthur]

>My wife thinks we should develop love-oriented programming..

>I would enjoy very much to hear your suggestions

My wife's attitude is "why would anyone want to be a programmer."
She considers it ministerial kind of work.  Though she knows
to be glad that there are people who actually want to do it.

My own take, probably because I come from a family of strong
women, is that this is much ado about nothing.  My elder sister
was an academic superstar, including near world class math aptitude.
Near world class was not good enough for her, so she became a world class 
attorney - with a strong interest in women's issues, its true - and
now is someone considered to be, let's say, important. 
Uncomfortable being specific.
To me programming is like math, in that it has (or should have) zero
gender related content.  Not sure if I were a woman I would want to
feel catered to, in any sense. Just the facts, thank you.

Art