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Looking for front and back end developers, as well as mobile developers to improve the stability, design and functionality of the Musopen.org website.
Musopen is a registered 501(c)3 non-profit charity, and all of the music and pdf files we host are free to the public without added copyrights/restrictions.
If interested, please tell us about yourself, your area of expertise, and if there is something in particular you'd like to help with: https://musopen.org/contact/ or aaron {at} musopen dot org
Musopen.org is designing a free, open-source app to learn how to read music and play an instrument. Think codecademy.com or duolingo.com but for music.
We would love help bringing this to life. Write us if you want to join, and how you might be able to help: aaron [at] musopen.org
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"...men more into things that make a whirring noise."
You are proving my argument. Nonsense like this has prevented women from feeling like equal participants (and equally capable) in many fields for decades.
Current research generally does not find evidence that variations in preferences, psychology, or personality stem from genetic or biological factors. Rather, they’re primarily attributed to culture and socialization.
I didn't say "society exclusively determines our interests"
my point was pretty simple. If society at large, in ways small and big, encourage women from joining a field, I think it's likely fewer will participate.
This is the argument behind Sheryl Sandberg creating stock photos that demonstrate more inclusion. If all I see are white men with grey hair in photos as doctors, don't you think that might bias women to think that's who doctors are? That's not 100% of what influences an interest, but it's an important one.
I don't think having a few programs or pr campaigns solves systemic bias. I guess to answer your question, ask women who are in tech or considered it if they experience bias.
I have, and I regularly hear depressing and disturbing examples.
If a society tells a woman she's not likely as interested in something, guess what profession she is more likely to choose?
Not the one she's being told she won't be happy with.
The research the post cites strongly implies women would be better qualified for other roles. That suggestion was (and is) both inaccurate and inappropriate to send in a workplace.
He shared a manifesto about gender differences in the workplace. In it, he calls women neurotic.
Whether people's read on the manifesto is reductive of his overall argument isn't the point.
He showed a serious lack of judgement writing and posting that in his workplace. He should not have played the part of expert gender/psychology expert. A researcher he cites specifically disagrees with his takeaways.
There are productive ways to have these kinds of conversations, he chose to go to the opposite wrong end of that spectrum.
Women have enough BS to deal with in tech, the last thing they need is a tech bro mis-using uncertain psych research to justify telling them they should find more appropriate roles.
Looking for front and back end developers, as well as mobile developers to improve the stability, design and functionality of the Musopen.org website.
Musopen is a registered 501(c)3 non-profit charity, and all of the music and pdf files we host are free to the public without added copyrights/restrictions.
For more info, please see past press coverage of our work: https://musopen.org/press/
If interested, please tell us about yourself, your area of expertise, and if there is something in particular you'd like to help with: https://musopen.org/contact/ or aaron {at} musopen dot org