a good test of the “women are not programmers because they prefer people jobs” hypothesis would be to teach, like, a year-long programming class for girls with a lot of pair programming and the entire class collaborating on a final project the way they’ll collaborate on projects in the work world
and see if the graduates are more likely to go into tech
I haven’t done pair programming but I’m really not looking forward to it.
How can pair programmers, like, think, when at any moment their thoughtstream could be interrupted?