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(Score 5, Insightful) 376  There is no problem to be solved.
Women who want to become software engineers are free to do so.
There are no barriers. That women tend to choose other careers
is the result of human nature. Like it or not, boys and girls
are different, and those differences are immutable.  As for
"minorities," the very term is meaningless. Anyone of any color,
creed, sex, or religion is (in America at least) free to pursue
these careers. Trying to bean count the number of Inuit who are
code jockeys is ridiculous and ultimately degrading to those
being counted.  Google is being shook down by the race and sex
hustlers, nothing more. They company is all too aware that these
free classes are not going to change the demographics of
software engineers. They're doing this as a PR stunt to fend off
the hustlers, who will eventually move on to some other target
who is more willi