Role Models And Gender Stereotypes

Posted Mar 2, 2012 8:30 UTC (Fri) by ldo (guest, #40946)
In reply to: Book review: Open Advice by nightrose
Parent article: Book review: Open Advice

Is this a gender stereotype, that females look for role models to influence them into particular activities, males don’t? Because there were never glamorous computer programmers or software geeks on TV or in the magazines or books I read when young (1970s and earlier), there were just the occasional computers themselves, and I was filled with curiosity as to how they worked—of all the technology I was exposed to, they seemed the most magical.

Is that not the kind of thing a girl would do?

Role Models And Gender Stereotypes

Posted Mar 3, 2012 12:05 UTC (Sat) by John_Doe (guest, #76040) [Link]

> Is this a gender stereotype, that females look for role models to influence them into particular activities, males don’t?

Yes, it is just a gender stereotype.

Now that this is off the table, do you perhaps also have something to contribute on the TECHNICAL ISSUES covered in the book?

Thank you.