women, get into IT... or else
women, get into IT... or else
Posted Sep 29, 2007 17:11 UTC (Sat) by nix (subscriber, #2304)In reply to: women, get into IT... or else by elanthis
Parent article: To Sir, with Love: How To Get More Women Involved in Open Source (O'ReillyNet)
It's not really meaningful to divide them. The nature/nurture divide would
make sense if all we had was `heterogenous genetic factors without
environmental influence' and `homogenous genetic factors encoding systems
influenced by the environment', but there are a *lot* more options than
that, and for most of them `versus' isn't even the right word to use.
(Pinker had an excellent analogy in _How The Mind Works_, describing this
as being akin to someone pointing at a high-end computer and saying `that
hardware is really powerful, so the software must be correspondibly
inflexible'.)
