Male geeks work on something until they fail or succeed, never saying that they're potentially failing along the way for fear of rejection from fellow geeks.
However female geeks give a running commentary of their efforts, learning and discoveries via their Blog, Facebook, Twitter and numerous other places. It's exactly the opposite, except some male geeks will jump in to guide or give the solution straight away, to gain geek cred points (but nothing sexual, ha!).
I used to tutor first year computing classes at university. The scenario I saw in nearly every lab went something like this:
1. Guy student 1 gets stuck at some point in lab work
2. Guy student asks guy student 2 for help
3. Guy student 2 tells him he's an idiot, give the briefest possible answer and returns to his own work
4. Guy student 1, equipped with the brief answer, is now able to work out his problem
In contrast with:
1. Girl student gets stuck at some point in lab work
2. Girl student asks guy student for help
3. Guy student pushes his chair over to girl student's computer, crowds her away from the keyboard and finishes the entire exercise for her
4. Girl student looks annoyed, but doesn't want to offend guy student so thanks him politely
The result? The girl student has learned nothing, other than she can easily get guys to do her work for her. This is fine in labs and assignments, but tends to fall over when exam time rolls around. She loses confidence in her abilities to handle the course work, never develops a feel for coding and by the next semester she's quietly switching to biology or psych.
I used to spend probably half of my labs dragging the boys away from the girls' computers.
When this happened to me when I was a student, rather than the teacher, I did actually try the "thanks, but I only want help with point A, how about you let me try to finish the rest myself" approach. It didn't work. They'd actually say "that's ok I can finish it for you". I found I had to get pretty aggressive with them to make them stop doing my work, then they got really offended.
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343 pages to say "be a geek and be a woman".
And because demand is so much higher than supply, we don't scrutinize the first point too much, or the second.
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Male geeks work on something until they fail or succeed, never saying that they're potentially failing along the way for fear of rejection from fellow geeks.
However female geeks give a running commentary of their efforts, learning and discoveries via their Blog, Facebook, Twitter and numerous other places. It's exactly the opposite, except some male geeks will jump in to guide or give the solution straight away, to gain geek cred points (but nothing sexual, ha!).
Male geeks need sites like StackOverflow wher
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I used to tutor first year computing classes at university. The scenario I saw in nearly every lab went something like this:
1. Guy student 1 gets stuck at some point in lab work
2. Guy student asks guy student 2 for help
3. Guy student 2 tells him he's an idiot, give the briefest possible answer and returns to his own work
4. Guy student 1, equipped with the brief answer, is now able to work out his problem
In contrast with:
1. Girl student gets stuck at some point in lab work
2. Girl student asks guy student for help
3. Guy student pushes his chair over to girl student's computer, crowds her away from the keyboard and finishes the entire exercise for her
4. Girl student looks annoyed, but doesn't want to offend guy student so thanks him politely
The result? The girl student has learned nothing, other than she can easily get guys to do her work for her. This is fine in labs and assignments, but tends to fall over when exam time rolls around. She loses confidence in her abilities to handle the course work, never develops a feel for coding and by the next semester she's quietly switching to biology or psych.
I used to spend probably half of my labs dragging the boys away from the girls' computers.
When this happened to me when I was a student, rather than the teacher, I did actually try the "thanks, but I only want help with point A, how about you let me try to finish the rest myself" approach. It didn't work. They'd actually say "that's ok I can finish it for you". I found I had to get pretty aggressive with them to make them stop doing my work, then they got really offended.