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It touches on other issues, but let's not go overboard
OK, I've put up a new version, that I hope is a proper synthesis of what we have been doing. As I said in my email to you last night (when I couldn't edit because the server was being far too flaky) the issues of feminism or being a "role model for girls" is really not an important issue relative to Ada's work. So I have briefly mentioned this issue in a paragraph near the end. These contemporary social issues may deserve a page or debate page of their own, but '''this''' article should be about what Ada did in 1843. [[User:SamHB|SamHB]] 10:33, 16 April 2011 (EDT)
OK, I've put up a new version, that I hope is a proper synthesis of what we have been doing. As I said in my email to you last night (when I couldn't edit because the server was being far too flaky) the issues of feminism or being a "role model for girls" is really not an important issue relative to Ada's work. So I have briefly mentioned this issue in a paragraph near the end. These contemporary social issues may deserve a page or debate page of their own, but '''this''' article should be about what Ada did in 1843. [[User:SamHB|SamHB]] 10:33, 16 April 2011 (EDT)
:At Wikipedia, they might say that the issues of feminism or being a "role model for girls" are really not an important issue, and that only Ada's work should be described. However, her '''only claim to fame''' is that she's considered the "world's first computer programmer". And I daresay if that title were given to a man she'd be much more obscure.
:So what I'd like us to do is:
:*75% - tell who she was and what she did
:*25% - tell how modern people are using her as a role model, etc., to advance agendas such as encouraging girls and women to choose science careers
:The whole idea of [[affirmative action]] is based on the assumption that men and women should take an equal share in all activities, whether it's child-rearing, housework, the military, or science. But the fact is that women don't want this. Oh, they're often happy to have hubby do the household chores, but forcing people to go against their inherent feminine (or masculine) nature isn't good for them - or society.
:Of course, this raises the issue of whether men and women have any inherent mental differences: intellectual, emotional, or volitional. Is "Nothing thinks like a dame" merely Broadway rhetoric (sorry, Rodgers and Hammerstein) indicative of the prejudice of ignorant sailors, or was [[Lawrence Summers]] right? --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] <sup>[[User talk:Ed Poor|Talk]]</sup> 14:08, 16 April 2011 (EDT)