{"id":208,"date":"2010-01-12T10:16:23","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T15:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/?p=208"},"modified":"2014-12-05T14:39:16","modified_gmt":"2014-12-05T19:39:16","slug":"geeks-drive-girls-out-of-cs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/2010\/01\/12\/geeks-drive-girls-out-of-cs\/","title":{"rendered":"Geeks drive girls out of CS?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re a girl and you&#8217;re interested in computing, but you&#8217;re afraid of peer pressure or that the culture of computer science is somehow harsh for women, I suggest you read this really nice <a href='http:\/\/cowpuppyranch.com\/2010\/01\/05\/geeks-drive-girls-out-of-computer-science\/'>blog post<\/a> from a women in the profession.  There&#8217;s good advice for high school boys and high school (and college!) teachers in there too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re a girl and you&#8217;re interested in computing, but you&#8217;re afraid of peer pressure or that the culture of computer science is somehow harsh for women, I suggest you read this really nice blog post from a women in the profession. There&#8217;s good advice for high school boys and high school (and college!) teachers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diversity","category-news","category-personal-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions\/209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}