Debriefing of female programmers from life: the lonely cold-programmer, programming-IT information

United States the Huffington Post (The Huffington Post) website has just posted a female programmers article. The article described her as a female programmers feel lonely in your life in the workplace, and the five major causes of this loneliness. Below is the entire content of this article:

I love programming! I was a few years ago only to find his love of programming. Before, I only know programming skills. Later, I found the program allows you to create something new, and even help the people around you. For example, I help my parents build a website, helping them to do business on the Internet. Now, I can definitely say that I love programming. I married a very talented programmer.

However, even though I have a lot of fun on the job, but sometimes I still feel bones alone. Indeed, millions of programmers worldwide. I also know that I am not only a love of programming than movie people, distribution, food or sleep.

So, why do I still feel lonely?

My loneliness is based on gender alone, because not many women I love programming. Of course, in high school or College, and girls to study computer science, some of whom later became programmers. However, these rare. Various survey shows, the proportion of male programmers as a result, while female programmers only range.

Why would this be? I did some research and found that there are five reasons.

1. we are confident enough in their work.

I am a company team leader and senior programmer. I asked female programmers working ability to compare with the others on your team. Results none of the female programmers to exhaust itself in the first place.

Studies show that women tend to underestimate their own ability and performance, while men tend to overestimate. Therefore, we didn't dare to ask for a raise, we often feel like a reward in person, we can't apply for any higher positions, unless we have a sure 100%. However, men are not the same. They are often considered more professional jobs, such as programming.

The reason for this is: from small to large women were not encouraged to pursue career success, always considered male profession.

We need to change the way society treats women. However, on a personal level, each of us should be able to realize that we don't have confidence too. In fact, we don't know how good we are. We should encourage each other, we should show our ability because we are great.

2. teach us to do is more important than being a mother.

We are not considered male profession, one of the reasons lies in the community that our main job is to be a mother. While different countries encouraged women to stay home with the children without, provide social welfare are also different, but most countries still believe that the first priority is being a mother, followed by the business.

If you want a mother, mother nature is good. But the problem is that women in general need to spend more time than men to raise the children. The result, they have less opportunity for advancement and accepted is also more flexible, less paid jobs, they are often less spectacular.

Because programmers need to invest a lot of time, women often work in this business because they are worrying about balancing family and work. Employers are reluctant to hire women programmers.

Laws need to be adjusted, but companies should provide equal treatment for male and female staff and policies.

3. we feel left out in the male-dominated culture.

According to last year for more than more than 200 female employees of the San Francisco Bay area, a survey shows, 66% women feel gender and they lost a lot of networking opportunities.

In my current work, I never felt left out. I play with these guys was, even playing the game. In fact, the only difference is that I wore a sports jacket, air-conditioning's temperature was too low because the Office because I Cook good, my colleagues often ask me to give them my own cakes.

Although many women's working environment and I are very similar, but there are a lot of women's working environment is wrong. In a male-dominated environment, we must be aware of any practice of the company is likely to make women feel left out. However, we also strive to create a work environment to encourage women into groups.

4. we will be subjected to sexual harassment.

The subject of sexual harassment in the workplace has been talked about a lot. Due to deal mostly with male staff, female employees may be insecure. Therefore, we need to create a safe work environment for them. The best way is to increase the number of women in the team, in order to achieve gender balance. Prior to this, also emphasized the importance of making women feel safe, to ensure that everyone is able to equal treatment of women.

5. we are taught to be engaged in work for a woman.

From the moment we are born, we found all the girls wearing pink clothes, dress up like a Princess, and was told to dress and genteel manners. Despite all this is true, but we control the boys learn-they have been learning in the future can become a well-paid professional subjects, constantly challenging themselves, constantly trying to improve our performance.

Within 15-20 years after graduating from elementary school, we see this difference in education. More women are engaged in education and care sector, more men are doing programming and management. Even women in the high-tech industry, more engaged in the design, marketing and sales, rather than other positions.

If we want to get more women into programmers, we have to make more of the girls dare to have such dreams. A better approach is to let the girls see Martel (Mattel) wrote the books of the game developer Barbie (Game Developer Barbie). In the book, girls no longer dream Barbie as slim and blond hair, and began to pursue programming career like her and start creating all sorts of things. In addition, we should also offer a variety of extracurricular activities, teaches girls to learn programming, and to increase self-reliance by girls in class consciousness.

What else can we do

In order to deal with all these problems, we must raise awareness. We must also encourage women to let them know that they can do anything. As a programmer of women in a male-dominated company, I can tell you, no we women can't do things. We like men did programming and can even do better than they. If you want to program, don't let anyone tell you what.

However, we also need to help women, for them to break down barriers. Otherwise, just encourage them to say "you can do it", it will make many women feel very frustrated. Teaching women like She Codes programming organizations provide real help. I often advise my company absorbing more female programmers. I hope that in a few years, my article will become obsolete, because women have set up. In order to achieve this goal, please share this article.

女程序员自述职场生活：孤独寂寞冷 - 程序员,编程 - IT资讯

美国《赫芬顿邮报》（The Huffington Post）网站刚刚登载了一名女程序员的文章。该文章讲述了她作为女程序员在职场生活中所感受到的孤独，并分析了这种孤独感产生的五大原因。下面是这篇文章的全部内容：

我爱编程！我是在几年前才发现自己热爱编程的。以前，我只知道编程的技巧。后来，我发现编程可以让你创造新的东西，甚至帮助你周围的人。例如，我就帮助我的父母建了一个网站，帮助他们在网上做生意。现在，我可以明确地说，我热爱编程。我甚至嫁给了一个非常有天赋的程序员。

然而，尽管我从工作中获得了不少乐趣，但是我有时候仍然会感到彻骨的孤独。诚然，全世界已有数百万个程序员。我也知道我并不是唯一一个热爱编程胜过看电影、散布、美食或睡觉的人。

那么，我为什么还是感到孤独呢？

我的孤独是基于性别的孤独，因为在我热爱的编程领域并没有多少女性。当然，在高中或大学，也有女孩子学习计算机科学，其中有些人后来甚至变成了程序员。但是，这些人凤毛麟角。各种不同的调查研究报告显示，男性程序员所占的比例为80-90%，而女性程序员只占到10-20%。

为什么会这样呢？我做了一些调查，发现这有五个方面的原因。

1.我们在工作上不够自信。

我是一个公司的团队负责人和资深程序员。我曾让女程序员将自己的工作能力与团队中的其他人进行比较。结果没有一个女程序员将自己排在第一名。

研究表明，女性往往会低估她们自己的能力和工作表现，而男性往往会高估。因此，我们不敢要求涨工资，我们经常感觉自己就像一个滥竽充数的人，我们不敢申请任何更高的职位，除非我们有了百分之百的把握。但是，男性员工则不一样。他们往往出现在被认为更专业的岗位上，例如编程。

出现这种情况的原因在于：女性从小到大都不被鼓励去追求事业上的成功，总是被认为没有男性专业。

我们需要改变社会对待女性的方式。但是，从个人层面上来说，我们每个人都应该也能够意识到，我们太不自信了。其实，我们都不知道我们有多好。我们应该相互鼓励，我们应该展示我们的能力，因为我们是很棒的。

2.社会教导我们做母亲要比做事业更重要。

我们被认为没有男性专业，其中一个原因在于社会认为我们的主要工作就是做母亲。虽然不同国家鼓励女性在家带孩子的方式不用，提供的社会福利也不同，但是大多数国家仍然认为女性的第一要务就是做母亲，其次才是事业。

如果你想为人母，做母亲自然也不错。但问题是，女性总需要比男性投入更多的时间来抚养孩子。结果，她们的升迁机会就变少了，接受的也都是更为灵活的、薪酬更少的工作，这些工作往往不那么引人注目。

由于做程序员需要投入很多的时间，女性往往不敢在这一行工作，因为她们担心无法兼顾家庭和工作。而老板们也不大愿意雇用女性程序员。

法律需要调整，但是公司也应该给男女员工提供同等的待遇和政策。

3.我们感觉在男性主导的文化中被冷落了。

根据去年针对旧金山湾区的200多名女性员工的一项调查显示，66%的女性感觉到由于性别原因她们失去了很多社交机会。

在我现在的工作单位，我从来没有感觉到被冷落。我与这帮家伙们打成了一片，甚至一起玩游戏比赛。事实上，唯一的区别是我穿着运动衫，因为办公室里空调的温度打得太低；由于我的烹饪手艺不错，我的同事还经常让我给他们带我自己亲手做的蛋糕。

虽然很多女性的工作环境与我的很相似，但是也有很多女性的工作环境很不如意。在男性主导的环境中，我们必须意识到公司的任何习惯做法都可能会让女性感到被冷落。但是，我们也要努力创造一个工作环境，鼓励女性员工融入到团体中。

4.我们会受到性骚扰。

有关工作场合性骚扰的话题已谈了很多了。由于主要与男性员工打交道，女性员工可能会缺乏安全感。因此，我们有必要为她们创造一个安全的工作环境。最好的办法就是在团队中增加更多的女性，以实现性别平衡。在此之前，还要强调让女性员工感觉安全的重要性，要确保每个人都能够平等地对待女性员工。

5.我们被教导要从事适合女性的工作。

从我们出生的那一刻，我们就发现所有的女孩子都穿着粉色的衣服，打扮得像一个公主，并被教导要打扮得漂漂亮亮的，要有教养懂礼貌。尽管这一切都没有错，但是我们对照一下男孩子们学习的东西吧——他们一直在学习日后可以变成高薪职业的科目，不断在挑战自己，不断在提高自己的表现。

在小学毕业后的15到20年内，我们就会看到这种教育的差别。更多的女性从事的是教育和护理行业，更多的男性在做编程和管理。甚至就连身在高科技行业中的女性，她们更多的也是从事设计、市场营销和销售，而不是其他岗位。

如果我们希望让更多的女性变成程序员，我们就必须要让更多的女孩子敢于拥有这样的梦想。一个好的方法就是让女孩子们看看马特尔（Mattel）撰写的图书《游戏开发者芭比》（Game Developer Barbie）。在书中，女孩子们不再梦想芭比那样的苗条身材和金黄色的头发，而开始像她一样追求编程事业，开始创造各种东西了。此外，我们还应该提供各种课外活动，教女孩子们学习编程，并在课堂上提高女孩子们自强自立的意识。

我们还能做什么

为了应付所有这些问题，我们就必须提高人们的意识。我们还必须鼓励女性，让她们知道她们能够做任何事情。作为一个在男性主导的公司里做程序员的女性，我可以告诉你，没有我们女性做不了的事情。我们能够像男性员工那样编程，甚至能够比他们做得更好。如果你想要编程，就不要让任何人对你指手画脚。

但是，我们也需要给女性提供帮助，让她们打破藩篱。否则，只是一味地鼓励她们说“你可以做到”，反而会让很多女性感到很挫败。像She Codes这样教女性编程的组织就提供了真实的帮助。我还经常建议我所在的公司吸收更多的女程序员。我希望，在几年后，我的这篇文章会变得过时，因为女性已经立起来了。为了实现这个目标，请分享这篇文章吧。