2010-05-10

If Women

One of my housemates was discussing some class material he was assigned to read that claimed that, among other things, women are better at multitasking. I was thinking about how men tend to think very procedurally, which is also how we tend to write programs. So then, if early programmers were mostly women, would we be having as many issues with concurrency as we are now?

I’d be interested to know if there’s any sort of correlation between gender and ability to easily grok different concurrency models.