Why we shouldn’t teach girls to code

In our modern age, we like to think that women can be and do anything. We tell our daughters it’s great to excel at math and science, to develop new technologies (like the kind that enables our smartphones), or even to captain a spacecraft. But —  and it’s a big but  —  is it really the best idea to frame improving women’s standing in the world of work as worth something only if it comes in fields where men are traditionally (and often, wrongly) considered to be more naturally adept? At the moment, the most popular advice for young women is that…

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