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Women need a room of their own. Women's groups tend to focus a lot on women's roles as mothers, or serving mothers. If there is going to be a woman-focused group it is best that the group is focused on women being people, not just parents that exist to serve others. Mothers are people too you know!
'''Women need a room of their own.'''


I haven't met many women's coding groups where there are people who actually code :)


For some reason women are generally encouraged to do web design and javascript and in women's programming courses people hesitate to introduce meatier topics like go etc. I don't know why this is. Stuff is presented as being very "hard" even when the women present are math majors.
I do recommend https://www.womenwhocode.com
 
=== Stuff I've noticed Over the years ===
* Women often are made to feel guilty for doing stuff for the sheer intellectual pleasure of doing it.
* It is ok to not work in children's education
* It is ok not to do stuff for the benefit of charity
* Building yourself and your mind is the best thing you can do for society because then you are all that you can be
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