A small discussion started here on that.
The way programmers think

So i will continue it slightly, and before i get flamed, i am not being sexist, i am just a realist.

As was discussed in those couple of posts, i think that good programmers think in a certain manner. In my opinion, we are more logically brained. We see a problem, and logically think a path through to the solution.

Men are closer to this way of thinking without any training. In life we are generally the more logical of the two sexes. if we have a problem, we try and find a solution. This i fell is probably because, as women constantly tell us, we are emotionally retarded. We tend not to care about the problem, as much as finding a solution to it.

On the other hand women are not emotionally retarded. The majority of females are very deeply emotional, and when they have a problem, the problem itself is often a bigger deal to them than finding a solution.

Now if you consider the fact that as programmers we have to deal with logic (well apparently it's logic, but it appears not to be sometimes) all the time, and if the above is true, then men are probably better equipped to deal with the problems raised by programming. The whole point of programming boils down to the fact that someone has a problem, and we need to provide a solution.

It is purely a difference in thinking. Whether this way of thinking is built into the sexes is another matter. It could well be society that breeds into us this way of thinking. This may be because boys and girls are socialized in a different way, we have quite different influences as we are growing up, but again this is due to what society feels boys and girls should do, and how they should behave.


Now don't get me wrong, there are of course exceptions to the rule, and i do know some female programmers, and they are very good at what they do. This is just a crass generalisation of a very open topic.