takotaco

Right. I understand this. I wouldn't want to be singled out or considered "special" or "different" simply for being a woman who happens to also program. At the same time I do have a very strong gender identity so I wouldn't be comfortable at all if I felt like I had to downplay or hide my gender to fit in. So while I do consider being a woman extremely important to my identity, it has nothing to do with me also being interested in tech and computer science.

Why would you not want to be considered a woman in engineering if you actually are one?

As a female in Computer Science I am legitimately curious.

In the previous thread that "he" linked to "he" states that "he" is actually female. I'm not sure why the gender of this person makes any difference though.