Analysis Of How To Be A Woman Programmer By Ellen Ullman

The gender gap is defined as the differences between males and females, especially as reflected in social, political, educational, cultural, etc. It is often said that women are more capable of succeeding than men, but this is just creating a gender gap. In the essay “How to be a Woman Programmer” by Ellen Ullman, she says that women today face a new, more virile and virulent sexism but, such thing didn’t stop her from being a programmer and she explained how much she struggled in her field being the only woman around. She states an example in her essay when she was at the meeting, her boss kept interrupting her with comments like “Gee, you sure have pretty hair”. She decided to ignore him and not confronting her boss changed the direction of her technical life. However, Ullman was limited at her workplace by the males that surrounded her. She felt like she was being discriminated just because she was a woman in a “man’s world”. She says that, the prejudice against women will always be present, the moment she walks through the door, she is seen lesser, no matter what her credentials. This made her lose her confidence as a programmer because, the questions about her career tend to …show more content…
She is the only female mechanic for IndyCar. After graduating from high school, Anna, then 17, moved from her hometown of Peoria, to Sonoma, California, to attend a one-year auto racing-mechanics school. Anna quickly learned that not everyone was as supportive of her career choice as her parents had been. "People didn't take me seriously, by any means," she says. But she doesn't dwell on the negative, adding, "I laugh about it now." During her first five years on the racing circuit, she fought hard to earn respect in this man's world. Now, after 15 years in the business, she says, it's gotten much easier. She loves her job, which, she says, makes her no different from the men out on the track. And she has no intention of doing anything else for a