Google will pay for coding lessons for thousands of female tech workers but not for male workers

BlindPelican · 2014-07-10T23:24:46+00:00

Honestly, if Google wants to do this all on its own, that's fine. I'm not sure why they don't realize that one can spend the same 3 months on W3School or Stack Overflow and learn a lot more for free.

As long as their hiring practices fall in line with fair standards, they can spend their money as they see fit.

Zero1343 · 2014-07-11T01:24:50+00:00

I have no problem when its private businesses doing this kind of stuff. if Google found that they were not getting many women applying to be tech workers then I'm fine with them encouraging that.

I would like to see similar programs for males in childcare, education, psychology etc.

It's a different matter when schools and such do this kind of stuff exclusively to one gender.

TheChymera · 2014-07-11T02:07:28+00:00

Obviously it's a bit of a PR stunt. And while it is detrimental to men, I can hardly hold that against Google.

To all the commentators claiming that this is not an issue, think again, in a competitive environment positive discrimination of a group always leads to negative discrimination of the rest. Sure, you might know how to learn coding faster and for free via the internet. But what about men who don't?

2014-07-11T05:20:47+00:00

Imagine the headlines if Google only paid for men to learn coding.

BlackMRA-edtastic · 2014-07-11T06:18:05+00:00

What we should be asking is why they are doing nothing for the poor or minorities. Feminism has become a tool of privileged women to direct resources back to themselves.

Joshthathipsterkid · 2014-07-11T02:44:40+00:00

My male privilege is showing.

rogue780 · 2014-07-11T04:05:04+00:00

And they're a private company and are free to spend their money training anybody whom they choose.

Curious_Swede · 2014-07-11T05:41:58+00:00

I could use coding lessons. Do I have to cut my dick off just to be qualified?

intensely_human · 2014-07-11T07:07:45+00:00

You can take a horse to water but you can't make them drink.

I'm a successful coder, 100% self-taught. 3-2-1 Contact had QBasic code in every issue, and I was fascinated by it before I even had a computer to run it on. I coudn't wait to get a computer and find out what that code did.

First thing I did when I got my first computer in '94 was find out how to run BASIC and type all that code in.

Plavonica · 2014-07-11T09:23:53+00:00

Reminds me of going through the scholarships available at my University. All of them except one are female required and/or preferred. And I don't qualify for the one (most non-perfect people won't).

5ean · 2014-07-11T10:37:46+00:00

To anyone interested, Microsoft offers tons of free online lesson programs to anyone regardless of their gender. microsoftvirtualacademy.com

You don't even need the paid versions of visual studio for most of them.

antifragility · 2014-07-11T11:43:46+00:00

For the people who are interested:

Google is offering coupons for CodeSchool.com. I have used their site before. You can register for free. Some of the courses (like AngularJS and level 1 for pretty much all of the basic stuff) are free. Then you can get 2 days for free, to check out all the courses (which can be prolonged if you get other people to register). When you enroll, the first month only costs $10. After that it's $29 monthly. So, practically speaking, these vouchers are worth $68.

If you put in a few hours per week, you can smash through all of their courses in one or two months. Just the first month should be enough to learn a lot. I don't think that $10 investment is really going to hold back any of us, to be honest. The $29 is fairly steep, but I'd say it is a fair price, because their production value is very high. It's not like you'll stay subscribed forever anyways :p

If you don't feel like spending money, but still want to learn:

All of these are also available to women, of course. I think Google's initiative is more of an attempt to push women past that initial threshold of their own prejudice.

Other than that...these things only teach you how to use the tools of the trade. I can teach you how to use a chisel, but you won't turn into the next Michelangelo overnight. You really need to be passionate about programming, stick with it and practice a ton if you want to get to a respectable level.

therealmasculistman · 2014-07-11T11:47:27+00:00

They don't allow you to read their comments because of civil discourse aka telling feminists off. Fucking feminists punks.

knowless · 2014-07-11T03:11:31+00:00

Good.

But the best still make themselves, regardless of sex/gender.

cupspoon · 2014-07-11T03:32:29+00:00

Google has wheeeeels

thatpunkguy13 · 2014-07-11T05:24:23+00:00

It's sad because I use to want to be a high school teacher but these days that just seems crazy for me

rgname · 2014-07-11T17:03:34+00:00

I see nothing wrong with this, benefiting women isn't the same as oppressing men. Google probably sees this as a benefit to themselves as well, the tech industry is severely lacking in women and google is trying to even out the ratio.

I joined this subreddit because I'm concerned about male rape victims not getting the help they need and being treated and being told "men can't get raped". I'm concerned about innocent people having their lives ruined because they are accused of rape. I'm concerned about adult men being treated like pedophiles if they are playing with children.

Whining over non-issues makes us look like a group of people that just exist to counter the feminists and makes it harder for people to take us seriously.

edit: just to be clear, if google were hiring women over men just because of gender, THAT i would have a problem with, this is just free lessons

giegerwasright · 2014-07-11T03:49:40+00:00

look at all these socks.

2014-07-11T02:53:10+00:00

Did it occur to them that men naturally enjoy working with technology more? allot more women than men are nurses but nobody bats an eye at that.

Title	Google will pay for coding lessons for thousands of female tech workers but not for male workers
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Date	July 10, 2014 10:49 PM UTC (12 years ago)
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