Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1855, commenting on the competition among novel authors:
America is now wholly given over to a damned mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while the public taste is occupied with their trash-and should be ashamed of myself if I did succeed.
The Wall Street Journal updates this story for 2017 with “Facebook’s Female Engineers Claim Gender Bias; Analysis found female engineers received 35% more rejections of their code than men”. (How was anyone able to verify the gender ID of the purportedly “female” and “male” programmers?)
Separately, “Girls Who Code founder to Ivanka Trump: Don’t use my story”, mentions that America may soon be blessed with two additional female programmers:
Ivanka Trump said that she planned to take a coding class this summer with her daughter, Arabella.
[Source: The above two stories appeared right next to each other in my Facebook feed, promoted by different friends.]
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