How To Be A Woman Programmer Analysis

Ellen Ullman wrote How to Be a “Woman Programmer” it embarks on the sexism that she has faced during the sixties where sexism had started to peak. She and two other women has endorsed comments from her boss and coworker, touched when hadn’t consented to it. Women had become outsiders in the male dominated work place, and Ullman hired start-ups which consisted mainly of younger women. She doesn’t tell other women to bit the bullet and take all the remarks and anything else that comes with sexism because she herself did not do that. To let all the prejudice women face and use it to make your dignity.
You throw like a girl. Five simple words, they are meant to be an insult towards males. Yet, it is not just an insult to males but females too. I’ve heard guys yell it to their friends every year in gym class, I’ve even heard it from my high school track coach. I’ve done track all four years of high school, but unlike more than half of the girls track team I didn’t run or jump, I threw with two other girls.
My senior year of high school we got a new throwing coach, it quickly became apparent that he would be focused more on hanging out with the guys than to actually coach anyone. Once practiced started we would go off to practice our
Coach made a comment on how my nails would get ruined because the shot put area is mostly mud. That’s when I just had to look him in the eyes because he was the prejudice I had to fight. Ullman wrote; “staring prejudice in the face imposes a cruel discipline: to structure your anger, to achieve a certain dignity, an angry dignity”( 730). That dignity that grew all season was angry dignity, and it was what got me to break the girls throwing discus distance by two inches. I believe that was my biggest screw you to my