Mentoring and diversity for Python

Being a conductor is a very public role where you cannot hide your gender, plus we are talking about a centuries old profession where men ruled. Obviously there were fossilised dinosaurs against it. Can you really say the same about the tech industry, which is barely 40 years old? Additionally as I said before you can easily hide your age, gender and sexual orientation behind a computer.

There are literally hundreds of scholarships and support programmes to get women to code, and have been for the last ten years. Almost every European government gives grants for hiring women in tech companies.

Look, I'm all for creating new opportunities for people, getting more people to code, etc. But not at the expense of a true meritocracy or enforcing positive discrimination over something which can be done anonymously.

At some point people will realise that it's ok to have preferences and being a woman. Do you want to be a powerful tech industry magnate? Go ahead! Want to be a stay at home mum? That's fine too!

If you want to code and you are good, no-one will really care if you're a woman. If you're bad, you're going to get roasted, no matter what is your gender.