I have no words - "PCs for (female) dummies"

[WidowWadman]

Just came across this blog - speechless I am

[TruthSweet]

My mum used to be a computer programmer in the 60s for the MAFF - back in the days of cards and punch tape - all the programmers were women Mind you she can't understand the free view box now so.....

[samandi]

Christ. I hope this is just the French version of the book. And thank god I'm not French.

[Empusa]

Oh god, the comment on there made my blood boil!

"While absolutely equal to men in every way, most women do think slightly differently than most men."

It's a book about computers, there's no difference in the way you approach computing!!

Wonder if the women of the W3C need their code written in pink in order to understand it

[ReaderIMarriedTheOtherGuy]

Grace Murray Hopper developed the first compiler and her work on machine-independent programming languages is directly responsible for how we write software today. She's also supposedly the originator of the word 'debugging'.

That having been said: As a woman employed in the IT industry, I am forever grateful for books like these. I very much doubt my fluffy pink lady brainz on their own would have been sufficient for me to get engineering degrees, specialise in my current field or land the well-paid software development job I currently hold.

For the benefit of us ladiez in technology, I strongly support the introduction of lecture theatres at universities decorated with pink wallpaper and of a special Windows edition for women, that emits baby sounds whenever new e-mail arrives. Obviously this is the one and only way for us to successfully address the gender gap in this industry.

[sashh]

From Pascal to Leibniz, from Babbage to Turing, from Eckert to Steve Jobs or Bill Gates: all blokes! And not just feminists!

Bloody hell, just ignore Ada Lovelace - Babage designed the difference engine, but needed a woman to program it.

Turing was part of a team which had, shock horror, women working along side men.

[FarloWearsAGoldRibbon]

Well, thank heavens I can read some French. That physics degree was really tricky without pink flowers on the cover of the textbooks to buoy my spirits, so maybe now I can finally hone my PC skills without sobbing at the depressing, masculine cover every time I lift the book.