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Work Advice: How women can hack into the ‘brogrammer’ culture (washingtonpost.com)
2 points by ohjeez on June 20, 2014 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


>Even the tech industry, romanticized as a haven for geeky outsiders with world-changing ideas, has come under fire for its insular “brogrammer” culture

I think this is a noteworthy misuse of the term "brogrammer". Women face stereotyping and poor social boundary recognition to be sure, but most coders don't, say, put bikini pictures in their slide decks.




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