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In times of globalisation contact with other languages is inevitable. It is estimated that more than half of the population is bilingual. The increase in migration, intensive economic exchange and fast developing tourism industry force people to learn foreign languages. Mass media and modern means of transport enable us to spread languages even faster. International marriages have never been more popular. All of these factors contribute to the growing number of bilingual people. Among them, there is one particular group which seems to benefit the most. They are called simultaneous bilinguals: people who acquire two languages from birth. http://images.huffingtonpost.com/2015-05-21-1432234752-9588891-Bilingual_kid.jpg According to many studies, simultaneous bilingual children seem to exceed monolingual children in tasks requiring abstract thinking, executive control and greater attention. In addition to having a huge impact on the human mind, bilingualism also influences emotion...
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Recently, these proportions have changed, because women have become confident and more likely enter to the "man's world". As well as you wrote above, IT companies themselves noticed greater benefits from teams made up of both genders.
Women, of course, are needed in IT and many other industries, but not as men's maskots, but as equal cooperator. While women is seen as a tool for corporations to operate more efficiently, rather than a "normal" employee, you can not expect that they will become interested in working in IT.
Most people imagine a typical programmer as a goy that has no friends shaves once a week and really go out and meet with other people. As all stereotypes that one is far from truth. I worked with many programmers ( I can’t speak about other representatives of the IT business),and they all were very communicative people and whey spend a lot of time having great fun after work.
And I think that’s the main reason why women don’t want to go to IT studies and work in IT business. Do we need more of them in the IT business. Definitely yes. I agree that they have different (sometimes better, sometime not) perspective solving problems and that is always a good thing to see a problem for many different point of view.
I think it’s not a big problem because fortunately we live in free country and it is up to girls whether they want to study or work STEM. Males and females are form different planets so nobody should be surprised that they are interested in different disciplines :-) Once in my carrier I carried out a recruitment, I was looking software developers and I didn’t care what sex developers is (I hope I put words in right order :-)). I had 10 persons to test and the group included only one female. She was quite good, better than couple of males but at some point of recruitment process she gave up. It was sad for me because I think that female in team possibly can make better atmosphere and exclude rude behavior and avoid trivial conflicts between loaded by testosterone males.