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0x20··on Dropbox is down
Haha, seriously? Did you really have to use a "citation" for a twitter link in your 10 word comment?[0] Pretentious pseudo-scientific nonsense. Only on hacker news.

[0]: No.

0x20··on Girls Who Code
http://www.lscp.net/persons/ramus/fr/GDP1/papers/spencer99.p...

“Characterizing the test as insensitive to gender differences was enough to totally eliminate women’s underperformance in this experiment. Yet when the same test was characterized as sensitive to gender differences, women significantly underperformed in relation to equally qualified men.”

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15298868.2012.68...

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19487665

0x20··on Girls Who Code
As well as girlswhocode there are also many non-gender-specific organizations aimed at helping young people into computer science.

Instead of asking whether gender-specific orgs for young people exist in the fashion or teaching world, you should also be asking whether non-gender-specific orgs exist in those fields as well.

The possible lack of "Young Male Teachers" organizations doesn't make much of a point if there's also a lack of "Young Teachers" organizations.

0x20··on Why Aren't There More Women Programmers?
> simply prefer other professions

Women are pushed away from CS because of sexism. A culture of sexism you contribute to with this comment.