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I found this article in today's Boston Globe interesting.
Summarized: in one woman's research, women as a whole are less confident in their computer skills than men, and this may relate to them not using advanced debugging tools that could assist their skills. However, when a debugging tool gives them the option to label something as "maybe wrong" and "maybe right" before testing, women use it just as much as men. Researcher has been hired at Microsoft.
Summarized: in one woman's research, women as a whole are less confident in their computer skills than men, and this may relate to them not using advanced debugging tools that could assist their skills. However, when a debugging tool gives them the option to label something as "maybe wrong" and "maybe right" before testing, women use it just as much as men. Researcher has been hired at Microsoft.