![]() I’m embarrassed to think of how much I’ve felt a sense of belonging to these informal clubs without asking who was excluded. Was it coincidence that the two of us who shared the best senior thesis prize in philosophy in 1892 wrote our theses in the lab on computers? What the story doesn’t deal with, that Margolis does, is the homosocial club-like atmosphere around computing. I also remember the sense of comradery among those who spent all night in the lab typing papers in the face of our teacher’s mistrust of processed text. At college I ended up getting 24/7 access to the computing lab in order to be able to use the word processing available (a Pascal editor and Diablo daisy wheel printer for final copy.) I hated typing and retyping my papers and fell in love with the backspace key and editing of word processing. I remember being jealous of the one or two kids who had Apple IIs in college (in the late 70s) and bought an Apple II clone (a Lemon?) as soon has I had a job just to start playing with programming. The story builds on research by Jane Margolis and in particular her book Unlocking the Clubhouse. ![]() In the 1980s they were heavily marketed to boys which meant that far more men came to computer science in college with significant experience with computing, something that wasn’t true in the 70s when there weren’t that many computers in the home and math is what mattered. The NPR story suggests that the problem is the promotion of the personal computer at the moment when it became affordable. Unlike other professional programs like medical school and law school, the percent participation of women when from about 37% in 1984 down to under 20% today. ~.The NPR show Planet Money aired a show in 2014 on When Women Stopped Coding that looks at why the participation of women in computer science changed in 1984 after rising for a decade. There is currently a direct download option exclusive to patreons, take a peek at for more information. I'd very much appreciate it if you would all think about supporting me on patreon, but keep in mind that I won't paywall my packs, this is just for supporting me making my packs better :) Added Eusth's Pla圜lubVR v0.9.6 (Modified) Added PCStudioItemeXperience v.1.0 (Modified) ![]() Converted Chinese translation from hardmod to XUA (ZodGame) Converted English translation from hardmod to XUA (HF-Patch) Applied Append Update (playclub_03_appendmap_0729all) Applied Append Preorder (playclub_03_appendmap) Applied Base game update (playclub_02_plus_all0508) ![]() If you want to get notified about new releases, feel free to join my notification discord: (You can find direct downloads etc in here) ![]()
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